The United Kingdom has exported £19 million ($25.9 million) worth of red meat to the United States in the first year since a ban on beef was lifted.
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data shows 1,211 tons (2.7 million pounds) of beef was exported to America between January
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The Philippines has temporarily banned beef exports from the United Kingdom because of a case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.
The Department of Agriculture suspension covers the import of live cattle, meat and meat products from cattle.
The agency said classical BSE is
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Dear Editor,
I like your recent post Letter From the Editor on Counting Cows.
Don’t forget Canada who is the USA’s largest trading partner in beef (reciprocal trading too) is also very capable of tracing back to original farms and the animals – we have the best technology in
Continue Reading Letter to the Editor: Why is R-CALF so upset? Just do it — count the cows
Tax season isn’t so far off, so it’s only a little early to get out my yellowed Canon 10-key calculator with tape. I usually only roll it out for taxes, but Bill Bullard sent my head spinning about beef imports.
Bullard, whom I truly want to meet in person
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Meat from a Polish slaughterhouse suspected of selling products from sick animals has been sent to at least 13 European countries.
The abattoir in Kalinowo near the town of Ostrów Mazowiecka was secretly filmed slaughtering sick cows by Polish broadcaster TVN. It showed slaughter was carried out at night to
Continue Reading Closed Polish abattoir sent meat to 13 EU countries
It’s pretty common for bilateral deals that were worked out ahead of time to be celebrated at multi-national international conferences. That’s how a deal to allow Argentina to export raw beef to the United States came about on the sidelines of the G20 in Buenos Aires.
It was a success
Continue Reading G20 side deal re-establishes raw beef trade between U.S. and Argentina
Brazilian police made new arrests this week in an investigation into a meat scandal that erupted last year. This time the target of “Operation Weak Flesh” is laboratories accused of covering up salmonella in products from food giant BRF SA, also known as Brazil Foods.
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Continue Reading More fraud in Brazil food industry; labs falsified pathogen tests
Continue Reading China to lift ban on US beef instituted after 2003 BSE incident
A new U.S. Department of Agriculture certification program for livestock producers may permit them to market their products with a special “Never Fed Beta Agonists” label. 
Beta agonists are feed additives used to increase muscle mass and promote weight gain in livestock animals. The drugs are typically added to feed
Continue Reading USDA Introduces Certification Program for Meat Without Growth-Enhancing Drugs
