Kobe Beef Food Fraud

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Posted: Monday, April 23, 2012

Many restaurants across the country feature dishes with Kobe beef - a delicacy, renowned for its flavor, tenderness and fatty well-marbled texture - on their menus. However, if you are eating Kobe beef in the United States, it is likely that it is not real Kobe Beef.

Real Kobe beef comes from a breed of cow known as Tajima which has to be slaughtered in Japan's Hyogo prefecture. Yet, the slaughter houses that produce real Kobe beef in Hyogo have not been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for export their products. Authentic Japanese Kobe Beef is not available for sale anywhere outside of Japan, with the only exception of Macau.

Real the whole article here: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/22/151153503/fake-food-thats-not-kobe-beef-youre-
eating