>“We have the safest beef in the world. There are 100 million head of cattle in the U.S. >and our testing program is so good that it found the two cows with BSE,” Brown said.
>He explained that although Japan has banned the import of U.S. beef, it has had >13 reported cases of BSE this year. A news story from Ireland praised the fact that >only 100 cases have been identified in that country.