Asia PacificJapanese Restaurants To Call For More US Beef ImportsJapanese re...

Asia Pacific
Japanese Restaurants To Call For More US Beef Imports
Japanese restaurants are set to urge the government to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports, saying the stringent rules are causing a serious supply crunch, officials said Tuesday.

ASEAN
Malaysia bans use of chemical in pigs, quarantines 30 farms
Malaysia's health ministry has shut down and quarantined 30 pig farms found to be injecting the banned substance beta-agonist in the animals, and warned that those found selling the tainted meat face a 10-year jail term, reports said Tuesday.

Africa
Uganda to lift ban on Kenya's beef
The ban on Kenya's beef exports to Uganda is set to be lifted. Livestock Minister, Joseph Munyao said Tuesday an assessment by the Ugandan delegation on the meat processing and production plant at the Kenya Meat Commission has swayed the Ugandan government to accept lifting the beef exports soon.

United States
Despite current woes, Brazil seen as U.S. farm rival
When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm.

Much riding on OIE decision next May
The World Organization for Animal Health, better known by its initials in French as the OIE, is expected to make a decision next year about America’s status as a nation with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

Asia Pacific
Japanese Restaurants To Call For More US Beef Imports
Japanese restaurants are set to urge the government to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports, saying the stringent rules are causing a serious supply crunch, officials said Tuesday.

ASEAN
Malaysia bans use of chemical in pigs, quarantines 30 farms
Malaysia's health ministry has shut down and quarantined 30 pig farms found to be injecting the banned substance beta-agonist in the animals, and warned that those found selling the tainted meat face a 10-year jail term, reports said Tuesday.

Africa
Uganda to lift ban on Kenya's beef
The ban on Kenya's beef exports to Uganda is set to be lifted. Livestock Minister, Joseph Munyao said Tuesday an assessment by the Ugandan delegation on the meat processing and production plant at the Kenya Meat Commission has swayed the Ugandan government to accept lifting the beef exports soon.

United States
Despite current woes, Brazil seen as U.S. farm rival
When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm.

Much riding on OIE decision next May
The World Organization for Animal Health, better known by its initials in French as the OIE, is expected to make a decision next year about America’s status as a nation with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).