date:May 01, 2012
The nine-member team, featuring government officials, representatives from local consumer advocacy groups, and academicians, will visit slaughterhouses, dairy farms and meatpacking plants in US, to evaluate the safety to US beef.
Following the ten-day tour, the team will return to South Korea and give recommendations to the government.
This move comes after a new case of mad cow disease was confirmed in a dairy cow in California on 23 April, which led to growing concerns about the safety of food