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Asia Pacific

 

JAPAN: Boycott of Nippon Meat spreads with news of BSE scam 
The number of retailers boycotting products manufactured by Japan's largest ham and sausage processing group grew this weekend with news that more Nippon Meat Packers’ board members were involved in a scam to mislabel beef and pick up government BSE subsidies.

 

Japan beef sales down 41 per cent
The latest figures on Australian beef sales to Japan show sales are still 41 per cent lower than last

 

HALF-BAKED SCAM: Nippon Meat Packers caught out
The meat giant is undone by an unraveling fabric of deception and a closed executive circle.

 

Prima Meat erroneously puts up beef for state buyback program
TOKYO, Aug. 12 Kyodo - Prima Meat Packers Ltd. erroneously put up 1.35 tons more beef for a state-run beef-buyback program as a result of computer entry mistakes, company officials said Monday. (21 :12)

 

Americas

 

Meat Marketing Plan
Canada is planning major changes in its beef and pork foreign marketing strategy.

 

USA

 

USA: ConAgra will convert recalled beef into non-food items 

US meat processor ConAgra is quoted as saying it will use the nearly 19 million pounds of beef it recalled on E. coli fears to make inedible products such as oil.

 

Pork Board names 2002-03 officers; re-elects Dorminy, Christensen to top posts
During its first regular meeting since new members were announced by the Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, the National Pork Board re-elected Hugh Dorminy, a pork producer from Russellville, Ark., as president and Craig Christensen, a pork producer from Ogden, Iowa, as vice president, according to a news release.