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Shenzhen frozen pork banned
Hong Kong has placed a temporary ban on frozen pork from Shenzhen and Henan province.
Beef Market Challenge
Australian beef industry says it is buoyant but facing challenges.
Japan seeks details of U.S. meat violations
Japan intends to ask the U.S. government for detailed information on more than 1,000 violations by U.S. meat packers of rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease from spreading to humans, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
Middle East wants Brazilian beef
The shipment of more than 30,000 live steers from the Brazilian southern state of Rio Grande do Sul to Lebanon called the attention of new Arab importers.
Americas
Proposed swine traceability system to rely on record keeping and animal identification
Canadian swine producers will be asked to assume a number of new responsibilities as part of a national swine traceability system being proposed by the Canadian Pork Council.
Europe
Pig prices remain firm
Spot and contract pig prices have remained at remarkably firm levels during the normally volatile August trading period.
Ministers plan tough BSE tests
The government will promise tough penalties for farmers or abattoirs which breach planned new BSE testing rules for cattle, it emerged yesterday.
BSE meat curbs to be eased
The long-awaited lifting of the anti-BSE measure that keeps meat from older cattle out of food may finally happen in November, nearly 10 years after the rule was introduced.
Britain to revise mad cow measures in autumn
Britain's farm ministry said on Tuesday it would decide in the autumn whether or not to lift one of the last remaining mad cow disease control measures, the Over Thirty Months rule.
USA
U.S. packers violate BSE rules
U.S. government inspectors cited meatpackers more than 1,000 times over a 17-month period for violating rules concerning the removal of tissue associated with mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
R-CALF says it will go back to court to close border
Billings, Mont.-based Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund has vowed it will push the courts and Congress to close the U.S. border again to Canadian beef.
Shenzhen frozen pork banned
Hong Kong has placed a temporary ban on frozen pork from Shenzhen and Henan province.
Beef Market Challenge
Australian beef industry says it is buoyant but facing challenges.
Japan seeks details of U.S. meat violations
Japan intends to ask the U.S. government for detailed information on more than 1,000 violations by U.S. meat packers of rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease from spreading to humans, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
Middle East wants Brazilian beef
The shipment of more than 30,000 live steers from the Brazilian southern state of Rio Grande do Sul to Lebanon called the attention of new Arab importers.
Americas
Proposed swine traceability system to rely on record keeping and animal identification
Canadian swine producers will be asked to assume a number of new responsibilities as part of a national swine traceability system being proposed by the Canadian Pork Council.
Europe
Pig prices remain firm
Spot and contract pig prices have remained at remarkably firm levels during the normally volatile August trading period.
Ministers plan tough BSE tests
The government will promise tough penalties for farmers or abattoirs which breach planned new BSE testing rules for cattle, it emerged yesterday.
BSE meat curbs to be eased
The long-awaited lifting of the anti-BSE measure that keeps meat from older cattle out of food may finally happen in November, nearly 10 years after the rule was introduced.
Britain to revise mad cow measures in autumn
Britain's farm ministry said on Tuesday it would decide in the autumn whether or not to lift one of the last remaining mad cow disease control measures, the Over Thirty Months rule.
USA
U.S. packers violate BSE rules
U.S. government inspectors cited meatpackers more than 1,000 times over a 17-month period for violating rules concerning the removal of tissue associated with mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
R-CALF says it will go back to court to close border
Billings, Mont.-based Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund has vowed it will push the courts and Congress to close the U.S. border again to Canadian beef.