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Wednesday May 31, 8:17 PM'Wagyu' label to be limited to beef from pure domestic cattle(Kyodo) _ The agriculture ministry plans to have meat shops use the product labeling of "wagyu" (Japanese cattle) only for meat from cattle born and raised in Japan, ministry officials said Wednesday.The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will limit the labeling as recommended the same day in an interim report by a ministry panel studying ways to protect the genes of wagyu as an intellectual property, they said. Voluntary rules set by meat shops and other businesses stipulate that the wagyu label can be used only for beef from four breeds of Japanese beef cattle and cattle born through their mating. But the rules impose no ban on applying the label to beef from the four breeds of cattle raised abroad. To avoid confusion among consumers, the ministry will call for amendments to the rules so as to limit the wagyu label to beef from the four breeds of beef cattle born and raised in Japan. The ministry also intends to create a system to check whether cows are purely Japanese based on the beef traceability law that monitors each cow by assigning an identification number to it. |
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