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Japan to hold talks with WTO
Shoichi Nakagawa, Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry, is meeting today with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Portman in Washington, D.C., to discuss the World Trade Organization's ongoing trade liberalization talks.
Americas
New pig handling video set for late September launch
A new video, due for release by the end of this month, shows how to make handling pigs a whole lot easier by taking advantage of their natural patterns of movement.
Caribbean Island group opens market to U.S. beef
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, an Island north of Venezuela, announced that it has reopened its market to U.S. beef.
Europe
BSE ban on older cattle dropped
BSE in Britain peaked in 1992, with 36,680 cases The nine-year-old ban on the human consumption of beef produced from cattle aged over 30 months is being lifted, the government has announced.
USA
California BSE bill may return
California lawmakers convened a special hearing with a panel of BSE experts recently who discussed the USDA's enhanced BSE surveillance program in light of a proposed state resolution, SJR 16.
Legal Fight Over BSE Border Openings Far From Over
Lawyers for the U.S. dissident cattlemen's group, Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, or R-CALF USA, have filed a petition for a rehearing before the full appellate court with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, over an opinion handed down by a three- judge panel from the circuit court in July.
Japan to hold talks with WTO
Shoichi Nakagawa, Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry, is meeting today with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Portman in Washington, D.C., to discuss the World Trade Organization's ongoing trade liberalization talks.
Americas
New pig handling video set for late September launch
A new video, due for release by the end of this month, shows how to make handling pigs a whole lot easier by taking advantage of their natural patterns of movement.
Caribbean Island group opens market to U.S. beef
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, an Island north of Venezuela, announced that it has reopened its market to U.S. beef.
Europe
BSE ban on older cattle dropped
BSE in Britain peaked in 1992, with 36,680 cases The nine-year-old ban on the human consumption of beef produced from cattle aged over 30 months is being lifted, the government has announced.
USA
California BSE bill may return
California lawmakers convened a special hearing with a panel of BSE experts recently who discussed the USDA's enhanced BSE surveillance program in light of a proposed state resolution, SJR 16.
Legal Fight Over BSE Border Openings Far From Over
Lawyers for the U.S. dissident cattlemen's group, Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, or R-CALF USA, have filed a petition for a rehearing before the full appellate court with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, over an opinion handed down by a three- judge panel from the circuit court in July.