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Harkin blasts Japan beef deal as campaign stunt
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called a plan to resume shipment of beef to Japan a "campaign ploy" that was rushed out to show some sort of progress ahead of the election.
Taiwan and Korea yet to decide on U.S. beef
Korea and Taiwan were visited by officials from the US Department of Agriculture last week, but no formal agreements have been announced.
High Levels of Antibiotics Discovered in Consumer Meat Products
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB) said Tuesday that in cooperation with the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS), it examined residue of 300 kinds of meat collected from butcheries, department stores, and discount stores in four major cities and found some meat had antibiotics more than the acceptable level.
Imports Increase
In September 2004, Japan imported 35,554 metric tons of beef from Australia -- a jump of 41percent compared with September 2003, according to Meat and Livestock Australia. An additional 3,323 tons were imported from New Zealand and the remaining 91 metric tons from various countries including Vanuatu, Mexico, Chile, and Panama.
Food Safety Campaign
Five simple measures could significantly reduce the global incidence of foodborne disease according to the World Health Organization.
Europe
Ad campaign to re-acquaint England with Spam
A $3.5 million ad campaign has been launched in England to defend the good name of Spam, Hormel's canned-meat product, and to remind Britons that the product does, in fact, still exist.
Pork Backed
A campaign to have British pork served in British supermarkets has praise four groups for backing the product.
Americas
Strike hits Quality Meats' Toronto plant
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union walked out of a Quality Meats processing plant in Toronto at midnight Monday morning, demanding higher pay, better work hours and increased pension funding.
New BSE Strategy
The implementation of the Canadian “Repositioning the Livestock Industry Strategy” is now fully underway. The C$488 million strategy was first announced on September 10 by Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Andy Mitchell.
Trade Deal
Cuba has signed contracts to buy 100 head of U.S. dairy cattle worth $300,000 and $10 million worth of wheat and meat products from U.S. companies, the Associated Press reported. The lucrative trade deal was signed just a day before the U.S. presidential election whose outcome could alter relations between the two countries.
USA
Tyson Fresh Meats proposes wage freeze for plant workers
Tyson Fresh Meats, the former IBP Inc., says that the closing of the Canadian and Japanese borders over the past year have battered its profits and is asking 1,500 unionized workers at its Walluwah, Wash., plant to accept a one-year wage freeze.
Midday markets: Grains, cattle lower, lean hogs up
Early calls for Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade are for soybeans down 1-3 cents, corn unchanged to down 1 cent and wheat down 1-2 cents, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Overnight on the e-CBOT November soybeans were down 2 1/2 cents at $5.25, wheat was down 2 cents at $3.14 1/2 and December corn was down 1/2 cent at $2.02.
Harkin blasts Japan beef deal as campaign stunt
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called a plan to resume shipment of beef to Japan a "campaign ploy" that was rushed out to show some sort of progress ahead of the election.
Taiwan and Korea yet to decide on U.S. beef
Korea and Taiwan were visited by officials from the US Department of Agriculture last week, but no formal agreements have been announced.
High Levels of Antibiotics Discovered in Consumer Meat Products
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB) said Tuesday that in cooperation with the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS), it examined residue of 300 kinds of meat collected from butcheries, department stores, and discount stores in four major cities and found some meat had antibiotics more than the acceptable level.
Imports Increase
In September 2004, Japan imported 35,554 metric tons of beef from Australia -- a jump of 41percent compared with September 2003, according to Meat and Livestock Australia. An additional 3,323 tons were imported from New Zealand and the remaining 91 metric tons from various countries including Vanuatu, Mexico, Chile, and Panama.
Food Safety Campaign
Five simple measures could significantly reduce the global incidence of foodborne disease according to the World Health Organization.
Europe
Ad campaign to re-acquaint England with Spam
A $3.5 million ad campaign has been launched in England to defend the good name of Spam, Hormel's canned-meat product, and to remind Britons that the product does, in fact, still exist.
Pork Backed
A campaign to have British pork served in British supermarkets has praise four groups for backing the product.
Americas
Strike hits Quality Meats' Toronto plant
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union walked out of a Quality Meats processing plant in Toronto at midnight Monday morning, demanding higher pay, better work hours and increased pension funding.
New BSE Strategy
The implementation of the Canadian “Repositioning the Livestock Industry Strategy” is now fully underway. The C$488 million strategy was first announced on September 10 by Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Andy Mitchell.
Trade Deal
Cuba has signed contracts to buy 100 head of U.S. dairy cattle worth $300,000 and $10 million worth of wheat and meat products from U.S. companies, the Associated Press reported. The lucrative trade deal was signed just a day before the U.S. presidential election whose outcome could alter relations between the two countries.
USA
Tyson Fresh Meats proposes wage freeze for plant workers
Tyson Fresh Meats, the former IBP Inc., says that the closing of the Canadian and Japanese borders over the past year have battered its profits and is asking 1,500 unionized workers at its Walluwah, Wash., plant to accept a one-year wage freeze.
Midday markets: Grains, cattle lower, lean hogs up
Early calls for Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade are for soybeans down 1-3 cents, corn unchanged to down 1 cent and wheat down 1-2 cents, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Overnight on the e-CBOT November soybeans were down 2 1/2 cents at $5.25, wheat was down 2 cents at $3.14 1/2 and December corn was down 1/2 cent at $2.02.