Japan has suspended US beef imports after discovering a illegal shipment: A pack of beef, imported for the major Japanese restaurant chain Yoshinoya from the Californian plant of National Beef, contained spinal tissue, the agriculture ministry said. Japan in July 2006 agreed to resume US beef imports on condition the cattle were not more than 20 months old at the time of slaughter, with brains, spinal cords and other risky parts removed. The illegal shipment was among 700 packs or 17 tonnes of beef imported through Japanese trading company Itochu last August, the ministry said in a statement. The spinal tissue was discovered on Tuesday at a Yoshinoya meat processing plant in Tokyo’s suburbs. “The beef in question has not been sent to the market,” said Takashi Himeda, an official in charge of food safety at the ministry. It was the first time that a risky cut has been found in a US beef shipment since Japan resumed imports, he added.
Bloomberg has reported that a shipping error caused a California-based plant of the National Beef Packing Co. to send the banned beef to Japan. 
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