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TOKYO — Japan suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacker Saturday over its failure to remove cattle parts banned under a bilateral agreement, as officials here raised concerns about U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease.
Japanese quarantine inspectors found bovine spinal columns in one of 732 boxes shipped from Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., which arrived in late September, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said. The suspension only affects Tyson’s factory in Lexington, Neb., one of 46 meatpacking plants approved to export beef to Japan.
