The government is drafting plans for the construction of eight state-of-the-art incinerators to burn cow carcasses and parts that may transmit mad cow disease, government sources said Thursday.
The sources said allocations will be included in the fiscal 2002 budget. The facilities are to be fully operational in three to four years.
The move comes a day after the discovery of a second cow in Japan with the brain-wasting illness formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.