Background Banner

Costa Rica Removes Product, Age Restrictions on U.S. Beef

Published: Jul 14, 2009

Costa Rica Removes Product, Age Restrictions on U.S. Beef

Costa Rica has removed age and product restrictions on its imports of U.S. beef, and is now open to a wider variety of muscle cuts and variety meat in accordance with OIE guidelines.

The FSIS Export Library  for Costa Rica has been updated to read as follows:

Eligible Products:

Fresh/frozen bone-in and boneless beef including further processed products, and beef tongues, kidneys, livers, and hearts.

If you have any questions, please contact Paul Clayton or Courtney Heller at 303-623-6328.

###

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, corn and soybean checkoff programs.

Costa Rica Removes Product, Age Restrictions on U.S. Beef

Costa Rica has removed age and product restrictions on its imports of U.S. beef, and is now open to a wider variety of muscle cuts and variety meat in accordance with OIE guidelines.

The FSIS Export Library  for Costa Rica has been updated to read as follows:

Eligible Products:

Fresh/frozen bone-in and boneless beef including further processed products, and beef tongues, kidneys, livers, and hearts.

If you have any questions, please contact Paul Clayton or Courtney Heller at 303-623-6328.

###

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, corn and soybean checkoff programs.