Indonesia became the first country to suspend exports of U.S. beef after the discovery of a BSE-infected cow in California earlier this week. U.S. authorities have stated that the animal was never a threat to the U.S. food supply.
"We will lift the ban as soon as the U.S. can assure us its dairy cows are free of mad cow disease," said Indonesia's Vice Agriculture Minister Rusman Heriawan, reports the Associated Press. "It could be one month or one year. It depends on how long it takes to resolve this case."