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Asia Pacific

Taiwan bans beef imports from Tyson plant
According to reports from Taiwan’s department of health, authorities have impounded a shipment of U.S. beef after rib bone fragments were discovered in the product this past week.

China reports another foot-and-mouth outbreak
Foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered among livestock in China's western province of Qinghai — the second such outbreak in the province in two months, and China's fifth reported case this year.

Korean beef inspectors to U.S.
Four teams from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will visit the United States next week to inspect 36 meat processing facilities that want to ship beef to South Korea.

Americas

U.S. seek Canadian BSE related cattle
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is hunting for 14 cattle that might have shared feed with Canada's latest cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

Europe

EU beef exports to resume this week
Britain should be able to resume exporting beef to the rest of the European Union later this week, marking the end of a ban imposed at the height of the 1990s mad cow crisis, officials said.

USA

Sara Lee to close Cincinnati meat plant
According to a story appearing in The Cincinnati Enquirer, an official with Sara Lee Corp. confirmed the company is planning to shutter an aging processing plant in Cincinnati later this year.

Cattleman says U.S. not at fault over Japan beef ban
An American cattle producer says there is a lot of frustration about his country's lack of access to the Japanese beef market.

Asia Pacific

Taiwan bans beef imports from Tyson plant
According to reports from Taiwan’s department of health, authorities have impounded a shipment of U.S. beef after rib bone fragments were discovered in the product this past week.

China reports another foot-and-mouth outbreak
Foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered among livestock in China's western province of Qinghai — the second such outbreak in the province in two months, and China's fifth reported case this year.

Korean beef inspectors to U.S.
Four teams from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will visit the United States next week to inspect 36 meat processing facilities that want to ship beef to South Korea.

Americas

U.S. seek Canadian BSE related cattle
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is hunting for 14 cattle that might have shared feed with Canada's latest cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

Europe

EU beef exports to resume this week
Britain should be able to resume exporting beef to the rest of the European Union later this week, marking the end of a ban imposed at the height of the 1990s mad cow crisis, officials said.

USA

Sara Lee to close Cincinnati meat plant
According to a story appearing in The Cincinnati Enquirer, an official with Sara Lee Corp. confirmed the company is planning to shutter an aging processing plant in Cincinnati later this year.

Cattleman says U.S. not at fault over Japan beef ban
An American cattle producer says there is a lot of frustration about his country's lack of access to the Japanese beef market.