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... Creekstone filing lawsuit against USDA Creekstone filing lawsuit against USDA By LIBBY QUAID AP Food and Farm Writer WASHINGTON — A Kansas meatpacker has sparked an industry fight by proposing testing all the company’s cattle for mad cow disease.

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to look for the disease in every animal it processes.

The Agriculture Department has said no.

Creekstone says it intends to sue the department.

“Our customers, particularly our Asian customers, have requested it over and over again,” chief executive John Stewart said in an interview Wednesday.

“We feel strongly that if customers are asking for tested beef, we should be allowed to provide that.” Creekstone planned a news conference Thursday in Washington to discuss the lawsuit.

The department and larger meat companies oppose comprehensive testing, saying it cannot assure food safety.

Testing rarely detects the disease in younger animals, the source of most meat.

“There isn’t any nation in the world that requires 100 percent testing,” department spokesman Ed Loyd said Wednesday.

Larger companies worry that Japanese buyers would insist on costly testing and that a suspect result might scare consumers away from eating beef.

Japan was the most lucrative foreign market for American beef until the first U.S.

case of mad cow disease prompted a ban in 2003.

The ban cost Creekstone nearly one-third of its sales and led the company to slash production and lay off about 150 people, Stewart s...

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