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Associated Press - October 17, 2007 11:14 AM ET

TOKYO (AP) - Japan has suspended beef imports from a Dodge City meatpacking plant, saying recent shipments from there contained tendons that weren't properly identified on paperwork.

Japan banned American beef imports over mad cow fears more than three years ago, but has since eased that restriction. Now Japan allows imported meat from young cattle as long as certain bones and the spinal cord have been removed and the meat has been processed at selected plants.

Imports from Cargill's plant in Dodge City will be suspended because 225 boxes of a recent nine-ton shipment.

Though the tendons do not pose a mad cow risk, Cargill says boxes bound elsewhere may have been erroneously sent to Japan.

Japan banned American beef imports in December 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was found in the U.S.

The ban was eased in July 2006.

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[SGT T.]

El crapo. Donde unemployment benefits?

[88-31-10]

Looks like they are a better importer (illegal aliens) than they are exporters!!!

[Highwayman]

Let them eat rice cakes.

[88-31-10]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Let them eat rice cakes.

and fish heads!!!!