Tokyo lifted the ban on Jobbers Meat Packing Co. of Los Angeles after reviewing a U.S. Department of Agriculture report explaining the reasons for the error and the steps taken to correct it, Japan's Agriculture and Health Ministries said in a joint statement.

The ban was imposed in March after inspectors found a shipment from Jobbers that appeared to contain 188 boxes of beef sausage.

Japan forbids the import of U.S. products such as sausage that contain processed beef under restrictions aimed at controlling the threat of mad cow disease, the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

The sausage was later found to be made of chicken and pork despite beef being listed on its ingredients.

All of the other products in the shipment were found to be eligible for export to Japan, and the company has tightened its system for verifying shipment contents to prevent a recurrence, the USDA said in its report.

Source: Forbes