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Arkansas City, Kan., Beef Processor to Voluntarily Run Mad Cow Testing.

By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 28--WICHITA, Kan. -- Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, an Arkansas City beef processor, is attempting to regain export markets lost to mad cow disease by voluntarily testing all of the animals it slaughters for the disease.

The move makes Creekstone Farms the first U.S. packer to offer to conduct voluntary testing and runs counter to the stance of the "Big Four" packers -- Tyson, Excel, Swift and National -- which have resisted 100 percent testing, primarily beca

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