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Asia Pacific

Chinese officials fired for pig disease cover-up
Four officials have been sacked for trying to cover up the trail of dead pigs early in an outbreak of a swine-borne disease that has killed 39 people in southwest China, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

Taiwan to continue ban on U.S. beef, Philippines lifts ban
Taiwan will continue its ban on U.S. beef imports, despite negative test results from a third suspected case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Nation bans import of pigs from epidemic-hit countries
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered a temporary ban on the importation of pigs from countries recently hit by epidemics affecting the animals.

Americas

Canada cattle exports halved from pace before BSE
The pace of Canadian exports of cattle to the United States since trade resumed in mid-July was down by more than 50 percent compared to levels before mad cow disease halted trade in 2003, government data showed.

Europe

FSA Board to consider advice to Ministers on BSE testing system
Food Standards Agency Board meeting will take place in public on 15 August 2005 to consider what advice the Agency will give to Ministers on a BSE testing system, trialled earlier this year as part of a managed transition towards replacing the Over Thirty Months Rule.

USA

Texans want WTO's help in ending bans on U.S. beef
Texas cattle producers on Friday asked the Bush Administration to seek World Trade Organization sanctions on countries that still ban U.S. beef over worries about mad cow disease.

Swift plant closing for good
Four hundred and eight jobs in Nampa are gone as a local beef processing plant closes shop for good.

U.S. to increase BSE testing
With over 425,000 high-risk cattle tested so far in its 18-month surveillance program to measure levels of infection by bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the national herd, USDA will soon test 20,000 older but non-symptomatic cattle on a statistically valid national basis, as it promised to do at the beginning of the program.

U.S. to press Thailand over beef
The United States is very likely to ask Thailand to further open its market for beef under the two countries' planned free trade area (FTA) agreement, in order to stay competitive rival Australia.

Asia Pacific

Chinese officials fired for pig disease cover-up
Four officials have been sacked for trying to cover up the trail of dead pigs early in an outbreak of a swine-borne disease that has killed 39 people in southwest China, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

Taiwan to continue ban on U.S. beef, Philippines lifts ban
Taiwan will continue its ban on U.S. beef imports, despite negative test results from a third suspected case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Nation bans import of pigs from epidemic-hit countries
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered a temporary ban on the importation of pigs from countries recently hit by epidemics affecting the animals.

Americas

Canada cattle exports halved from pace before BSE
The pace of Canadian exports of cattle to the United States since trade resumed in mid-July was down by more than 50 percent compared to levels before mad cow disease halted trade in 2003, government data showed.

Europe

FSA Board to consider advice to Ministers on BSE testing system
Food Standards Agency Board meeting will take place in public on 15 August 2005 to consider what advice the Agency will give to Ministers on a BSE testing system, trialled earlier this year as part of a managed transition towards replacing the Over Thirty Months Rule.

USA

Texans want WTO's help in ending bans on U.S. beef
Texas cattle producers on Friday asked the Bush Administration to seek World Trade Organization sanctions on countries that still ban U.S. beef over worries about mad cow disease.

Swift plant closing for good
Four hundred and eight jobs in Nampa are gone as a local beef processing plant closes shop for good.

U.S. to increase BSE testing
With over 425,000 high-risk cattle tested so far in its 18-month surveillance program to measure levels of infection by bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the national herd, USDA will soon test 20,000 older but non-symptomatic cattle on a statistically valid national basis, as it promised to do at the beginning of the program.

U.S. to press Thailand over beef
The United States is very likely to ask Thailand to further open its market for beef under the two countries' planned free trade area (FTA) agreement, in order to stay competitive rival Australia.