Testing Brouhaha

Creekstone Farms meat packing plant in Arkansas City, KS, is the focus of a growing dispute between some meat packers and the USDA.

Assured by the Japanese that they would resume purchases of their products if they adopt rigid BSE-related standards, Creekstone Farms aspires to be the first producer in the United States that tests every cow for BSE (so-called mad cow disease).

USDA counters that the effort not only is expensive but unnecessary.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at March 25, 2004 08:45 AM | TrackBack