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ASIA/SOUTH AFRICA: Hong Kong bans meat imports from South Africa
The Hong Kong government has banned the sale of ostriches and all live birds and poultry meat from South Africa due to an avian flu scare (H5N2 bird flu virus).

Australia benefiting from U.S. beef ban
Australian beef exports to Japan have jumped 25 percent – to $1.75 billion -- since the discovery of a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the United States last year.

Cattle exports to SE Asia may fall
Australia's largest exporter of live cattle to Indonesia says there could be further erosion in exports to South-East Asia

US mad cow woes a boon to Aussie farmers
The United States' mad cow disease outbreak has been to Australia's benefit with a huge jump in sales to Japan.

USA

AMI leader calls ban of BSE risk material in feed 'unwarranted'
James Hodges, president of the American Meat Institute Foundation, today called the FDA's preliminary decision to ban Specified Risk Materials (SRM) from all animal feed "unwarranted," in comments to the FDA. His remark was aimed at an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) that includes a plan to amend current bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) firewall strategies. 08/16/2004 10:27 a.m. CDT

Asia Pacific

ASIA/SOUTH AFRICA: Hong Kong bans meat imports from South Africa
The Hong Kong government has banned the sale of ostriches and all live birds and poultry meat from South Africa due to an avian flu scare (H5N2 bird flu virus).

Australia benefiting from U.S. beef ban
Australian beef exports to Japan have jumped 25 percent – to $1.75 billion -- since the discovery of a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the United States last year.

Cattle exports to SE Asia may fall
Australia's largest exporter of live cattle to Indonesia says there could be further erosion in exports to South-East Asia

US mad cow woes a boon to Aussie farmers
The United States' mad cow disease outbreak has been to Australia's benefit with a huge jump in sales to Japan.

USA

AMI leader calls ban of BSE risk material in feed 'unwarranted'
James Hodges, president of the American Meat Institute Foundation, today called the FDA's preliminary decision to ban Specified Risk Materials (SRM) from all animal feed "unwarranted," in comments to the FDA. His remark was aimed at an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) that includes a plan to amend current bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) firewall strategies. 08/16/2004 10:27 a.m. CDT