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Asia Pacific

 

Hong Kong Opens up to Spanish Meat
Strict inspections to accompany exports of Spanish meat to Hong Kong.

 

Frugal Japanese fail to lift McDonald's 
McDonald's Japan thought it had almost struck gold in August when droves of workers queued up to buy its hamburgers for just Y59 (50 cents) - the cheapest standard McDonald's hamburger worldwide.

 

Asians paying big bucks for ranch's beef
TV Tokyo, the country's largest media outlet, sent producer Hiromi Fujihara and a hired Boise camera crew to film Baker City rancher Ken Tew's herd of Wagyu cattle. Tew raises many of the bulls for Snake River Farms, the Boise-based company that supplies most of American Kobe beef to the world.

 

Americas

 

BSE in Spain
Four new cases of BSE recorded this week.

 

Europe

 

Britain ramps up illegal meat import controls
Britain on Tuesday stepped up measures to stem its flood of illegal meat imports, widely thought to have caused the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, but officials admitted the new steps were based on scant data.

 

Russia to boost ports grain export capacity
Russia plans to more than double its port grain export capacity by 2005 from a current seven million tones a year through building new terminals, a deputy agriculture minister said on Tuesday.

 

UK: Defra announces measures to tackle illegal meat imports
More measures to tackle illegal imp

orts of meat have been drawn up by the UK government in a revised action plan

 

Dioxin Ban Lifted
Philippines lifts import ban on Dutch and German meat.

 

USA

 

USDA: Total Red Meat Production Drops From January
Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 3.50 billion pounds in February, virtually unchanged from the 3.50 billion pounds produced in February 2002. February 2002 contained 20 weekdays (including one holiday)and 4 Saturdays. February 2003 contained 20 weekdays (including one holiday)and 4 Saturdays.