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Jptt Kokai Tokkyo Koho JP 01,132,877 (May 25, 1989), M. Tsukada (to Japan Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry, Sericultual Experiment... 

In 1947, the Japanese government promulgated the Pesticide Registration Law (PRL) administered by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry [now Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)]. At that time, the purpose of this law was to control the quality of end-use pesticide products since there were many poor-quality and fake products in the market in the 1940s. 

In a recent study of range cattle, the overall prevalence of serotype 0157 H7 from fecal samples was 1 % and this parameter was only 0.6% in animals that were on cow-calf pasture (Renter et al., 2003). New Zealand is a major cattle producing country that relies mostly on pasture feeding, but epidemiological evidence and cattle surveys suggested that the prevalence of E. coli 0157 H7 appears to be extremely low in that country (Cook, personal communication). Other researchers reported only two 0157-positive animals in a study that included 531 cattle in 55 dairy farms (Buncic and Avery, 1997). In studies conducted by New Zealand s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, E. coli 0157 H7 was never detected from a total of 3000 bovine and 500 ovine carcasses (Cook, personal communication). Based on these reports, it is apparent that cattle fed pasture had a lower 0157 H7 prevalence, but further work is needed to determine if the effect is due to the pasture feed itself or to the physical separation of the animals. 

Watanabe, T. Fukamachi, C. Nakayama, 0. Teramachi, Y. Abe, K. Suruga, S. Mivanage, S. The Report of Food Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Japan, 1960, 1413 (in Japanese). 

Goodwin, M. Van Eaton, C. Control of Varroa. A Guide for New Zealand Beekeepers. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, 2001. 

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and New Zealand Food Safety Authority (2009) Atypical/Nor98 scrapie in New Zealand, http //www.biosecurity.govt.nz/media/28-10-09/ atypical-scrapic-dctcction... 

In the UK and central Europe, dietary selenium intakes have declined due to the diminished importation of Canadian or North American wheat (MacPherson et al. 1997, Schrauzer 1998). In Finland, the generally low Se content of the soil led the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 1984 to order the addition of selenium (as sodium selenate) to fertilizers, 6 mg Sekg fertilizer for grass and hay and 16 mg Sekg fertilizer for cereal crops. The selenium content of spring wheat increased from 0.01 ... 

Briggs, L. Salmon deaths in Norway caused by a bloom of Chattonella-iamlysis of fish, shellfish and seawater for toxins, in Proceedings of the Marine Biotoxin Science Workshop No. 15, May 18, 2001, New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. 

MAF [Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Korea] (2002), Comprehensive Plans for Promoting Organic Agriculture (in Korean), May. 

Deputy-Director, Sustainable Agriculture Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Korea. 

The authors thank Prof. Y. Tazima (Misima) and Dr. F. J. de Serres (Research Triangle Park) for their warm encouragement for development of the rec-assay. The present study was supported in part by research grants from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Welfare, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, The Takamatsunomiya Cancer Research Foundation, and the Nissan Science Foundation. 

MURRAY N. (2002), Handbook on Animal Import Risk Analysis. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Biosecurity New Zealand. Available at http //www.biosecurity. govt.nz/pests-diseases/animals/risk/import-risk-analysis-handbook.htm (accessed on 30th March 2011). 

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