date:Dec 14, 2012
Brazil has announced that its beef is free from mad cow disease and has launched a campaign to allay the fears of importers.
The country plans to send delegations to its top 20 beef importing nations as part of the campaign.
The carcass of a cow that died in 2010 in southern Brazil was found to contain the disease-carrying agent. However, the country's Agriculture Ministry claimed in the latest report that the animal did not 'manifest the disease nor die of it'.
Despite assurances from the mi