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Asia Pacific
Japan's request delays border decision
Japan's request for country of origin certification of all beef imports delays a U.S. decision over when and how to resume beef trade with Canada. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture officials had been expected to announce last week various protocols for reopening the border for boxed beef and cattle. But talks between Japanese Minister of Agriculture Yoshiyuki Kamei and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and then with Canadian Ag Minister Lyle Vanclief left key issues unresolved. Japan has demanded that certification start Sept 1.
The Howard/Anderson Government in Australia and the livestock exporting industry is to grant $150,000 to a project aimed at improving animal handling in the Middle East and North Africa.
Americas
Beef Backing
The Government of Canada has announced that it has taken further measures to support domestic beef and veal producers in facing the challenges and uncertainty brought on by the single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Door Opening for Canadian Beef?
Extra BSE control measures put in place by Canada could speed the way to opening the US borders to Canadian beef.
Europe
Italian company looks to patent ground beef sanitization process in United States
Scandiano, Italy-based The Classica Group Inc., said that its United States subsidiary, Classica Microwave Technologies, would seek a U.S. patent for its process for sanitization of ground beef.
Fewer Dioxins in Food
Levels of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food have fallen by around 50 per cent over three years, according to the 2001 UK Total Diet Study of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food.
USA
Iowa Quality Beef plant opens at former Tama Pack site
After purchasing the idled Tama Pack plant last summer from the city of Tama, Iowa for about $2.5 million, and spending more than $30 million to renovate the plant, The Iowa Quality Beef Cooperative has opened.
House Blocks Meat Labeling
The House on Monday blocked a previous requirement that imported meat be identified with country-of-origin labels.
Asia Pacific
Japan's request delays border decision
Japan’s request for country of origin certification of all beef imports delays a U.S. decision over when and how to resume beef trade with Canada. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture officials had been expected to announce last week various protocols for reopening the border for boxed beef and cattle. But talks between Japanese Minister of Agriculture Yoshiyuki Kamei and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and then with Canadian Ag Minister Lyle Vanclief left key issues unresolved. Japan has demanded that certification start Sept 1.
The Howard/Anderson Government in Australia and the livestock exporting industry is to grant $150,000 to a project aimed at improving animal handling in the Middle East and North Africa.
Americas
Beef Backing
The Government of Canada has announced that it has taken further measures to support domestic beef and veal producers in facing the challenges and uncertainty brought on by the single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Door Opening for Canadian Beef?
Extra BSE control measures put in place by Canada could speed the way to opening the US borders to Canadian beef.
Europe
Italian company looks to patent ground beef sanitization process in United States
Scandiano, Italy-based The Classica Group Inc., said that its United States subsidiary, Classica Microwave Technologies, would seek a U.S. patent for its process for sanitization of ground beef.
Fewer Dioxins in Food
Levels of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food have fallen by around 50 per cent over three years, according to the 2001 UK Total Diet Study of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food.
USA
Iowa Quality Beef plant opens at former Tama Pack site
After purchasing the idled Tama Pack plant last summer from the city of Tama, Iowa for about $2.5 million, and spending more than $30 million to renovate the plant, The Iowa Quality Beef Cooperative has opened.
House Blocks Meat Labeling
The House on Monday blocked a previous requirement that imported meat be identified with country-of-origin labels.