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Vigilance vowed over U.S. beef

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Lee: South Korean says public health will take priority.

By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports
Published: 5/8/2008 3:12 AM
Last Modified: 5/8/2008 4:46 AM

South Korea's president said Wednesday that his government would halt imports of U.S. beef if it endangered public health.

"If the opening of the beef market results in a threat to the people's health, we will immediately suspend imports and work out countermeasures," President Lee Myung-bak told provincial officials in Seoul.

Fears of mad cow disease have spread among many South Koreans before the resumption of U.S. beef imports later this month. Thousands of people have staged candlelight vigils in recent days calling on the government to scrap an agreement with Washington to restart imports.

South Korea suspended imports of U.S. beef in late 2003 after mad cow disease was discovered in Washington state cattle. It resumed limited imports in April 2007 but put them on hold again in October when a shipment arrived containing banned animal parts.

By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports

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