Japanese still resisting U.S. beef. New surveys showed staunch resistance in Japan to U.S. beef, with only one food company planning to buy the American meat. [News Source]

Processor at odds with USDA over mad-cow testing. A Kansas beef farm sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the right to test every animal slaughtered at its plant for mad cow disease. [News Source]

Japanese: We’ll pass on U.S. beef (CNN Money) Survey finds 80% reluctant to eat the beef despite lifting of mad cow ban. TOKYO (Reuters) -- Most Japanese are extremely reluctant to eat U.S. beef, despite the ending of import bans imposed after outbreaks of mad cow disease in the United States, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Saturday. [News Source]