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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - After three days of talks, the United States and South Korea failed to agree Friday on whether to lift a ban on U.S. beef imports prompted by concerns over mad cow disease, the head of an American delegation said Friday.
Both sides said that health concerns for consumers need to be eliminated if the ban is to be lifted. The ban was imposed after a 2003 outbreak of mad cow disease in the United States.
"We had a very productive, a very thorough and focused discussion," Charles Lambert, deputy under secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told reporters Friday. Lambert led the 15-member U.S. delegation to Seoul, meeting with an 11-member South Korean team headed by Park Hyun-chool, director general of the Livestock Bureau at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
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