Taiwan Lifts Ban On US Beef In Bone

look folks, after the BSE MRR policy was shoved down every countries throat, it became legal to trade all strains of mad cow disease, i.e. TSEs LEGALLY. That's just another sad legacy of GW et al. THE USA is doing now, what the U.K. did when they spread BSE around the globe, except GW just made it legal. it's as simple as that, but trade and commerce is the backbone of science. in fact, it broke it's back. if you ban USA beef, the USA will threaten you with trade sanctions. TSE science, trade, and commerce is based on junk science, and so is the O.I.E. Just because of the incubation period, and low _documented_ body bag count, and a diagnostic criteria that goes back to the stone ages, and proven wrong from the very beginning. who will get the last laugh $$$ time will tell, i hope i am wrong, but this goes far beyond the mad cow hamburger, or the beef on bone BSE, it further goes to the 'pass if forward' and or 'friendly fire' modes, there from. you can't deny it, because it has been proven. and who cares if you die old and crazy with a mad cow type TSE disease i.e. CJD anyway. due to the incubation period, by then, nobody cares. your just another number...TSS


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Mad cow ban lifted amid legal threat Story Added : 23rd October 2009

Trade officials say Australia was at risk of international legal action if it did not change its policy on beef imports from countries affected by mad cow disease.

A blanket ban on imports from those countries will be lifted, but all beef will still be subject to close checks.

The Federal Opposition says it will put Australia's beef industry and disease-free status in jeopardy.

But Tim Yeend from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has told a Senate estimates hearing there were legal risks in leaving the policy unchanged.

"It is worth noting that Canada has just recently initiated a dispute against Korea in this precise area," he said.

"So I would say that there's a high level of risk, given that these countries have been raising the issue repeatedly over a number of years in WTO (World Trade Organisation) disputes."

http://www.efarming.com.au/News/agricultural/23/10/2009/75188/mad-cow-ban-lifted-amid-legal-threat.html


Threats stop 'mad cow' ban

David McKenzie

October 26, 2009

AUSTRALIA has scrapped its blanket ban on beef imports from "mad cow'' countries as a result of trade threats, the beef industry has revealed. ...snip...END

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2009/10/26/126745_national-news.html


Free Trade with Taiwan Is Long Overdue

August 15, 2007

by John J. Tkacik, Jr. and Daniella Markheim Backgrounder #2061

Although Congress has allowed trade promotion authority (TPA) to expire, this paradoxically presents Congress with an opportunity to consider a country-specific initiative that both the majority and minority should find attractive—a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan. Among other things, a U.S.–Taiwan FTA would increase U.S. auto, rice, poultry, and livestock exports and open a significant new market for new research medicines....snip...END

http://www.heritage.org/Research/tradeandeconomicfreedom/bg2061.cfm


Beef Blockade Risks U.S.-Japan Trade War Even as food industry asks for American beef. Compiled by staff Published: May 1, 2006 USA Today reports that a possible trade war looms over the U.S.- Japan beef dispute. Since Japan reimposed a ban on all U.S. beef on Jan. 20 after an improper shipment of veal, frustrations have mounted as officials on both sides work to resume trade.

"It was a stupid mistake, but it's a mistake that's stopped in its tracks a (multi) billion-dollar industry," says J. Thomas Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan. "You don't want beef to set off a trade war between the United States and Japan... This has the potential for being very damaging to the relationship. It's already had a corrosive effect."

Japanese officials took a hard line on U.S. beef imports, demanding an explanation for the last export error and requiring Japanese inspections of American beef facilities. U.S. lawmakers are losing patience, with one senator demanding trade resumption by June 1....SNIP...END

http://californiafarmer.com/story.aspx?s=8165&c=10


Japan Questions U.S. BSE Firewalls, Trade Resumption Still Far Off Food Safety Commission fears Britain-type situation will occur in U.S. beef since meat and bone meal isn't banned from all animal feed.

Compiled by staff Published: Aug 25, 2005 ' animal feed controls to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy are under fire from and independent panel in Japan.

Japan's Food and Safety Commission says a U.S. regulation allowing for the use of meat-and-bone meal from cattle to be used in other animal feeds is risky. The panel members are tasked with determining the safety of U.S. beef before trade can resume between the two countries.

Reuters reports that panel member Tetsuyuki Kitamo says, "We cannot completely rule out the possibility that the situation in the United States may become similar to what happened in Britain."

"Kazuya Yamanouchi, another panel member, proposed that the panel make a risk assessment on U.S. beef that included the possibility that BSE could spread," Reuters reports. "Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, the panel chairman, said he personally did not expect BSE to spread, but added that he would consider the proposal by next meeting."

The next meeting hasn't been set on when the Commission will again look at the issue.

http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx?s=27087&c=17


Japan suspends US plant's beef amid mad cow fears

The Associated Press

Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. TOKYO — Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacking plant after finding cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.

Japanese quarantine inspectors found bovine spinal columns in one of 732 boxes sent by Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., which arrived in Japan last month, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. The box contained 35 pounds of chilled short loin with spinal bones, which were not released commercially, said ministry official Goshi Nakata.

The suspension only affects Tyson's factory in Lexington, Neb., one of 46 meatpacking plants approved to export beef to Japan.

It was the second suspension for the Lexington factory, Nakata said. Japan slapped a four-month ban on beef shipments from the same plant in February 2007 after finding two boxes of beef lacking verifications to show they came from cattle that met Japan's safety standards.

The Japanese ministry also asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate how the box containing the banned parts ended up in Japan.

Japan will await results of a U.S. investigation to determine the penalty for the Tyson factory, the ministry said.

Japan banned all U.S. beef imports in 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the United States. Japan resumed buying American beef in 2006 after a bilateral trade agreement setting new safety standards.

Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a degenerative nerve disease in cattle. In humans, eating meat products contaminated with the illness is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady.

Under the bilateral trade agreement, U.S. exporters must remove spinal columns, brain tissue and other parts considered linked to mad cow disease. U.S. beef shipments to Japan must also come only from cattle age 20 months or younger, which are believed to pose less of a risk.

Washington has repeatedly criticized Japan for its tough import restrictions, which authorities say have no scientific basis.

U.S. officials have urged Japan to allow imports of beef from cattle aged up to 30 months, a widely used safety standard elsewhere.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091010/NEWS/910109983?Title=Japan-suspends-US-plant-s-beef-amid-mad-cow-fears-


Korea Trade Deal Lifts Meat Packing Companies Ag and Trade | Main Street Economics 04/19/2008

President Bush has been pushing for a new comprehensive trade agreement with South Korea, but negotiations have hung up on the 2003 beef ban. Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, said he would oppose any new South Korean trade deal until the beef restrictions were lifted.

Now that the beef question has been settled, the larger trade deal will become part of the stark disagreement over trade between Republicans and Democrats.

http://www.dailyyonder.com/korea-trade-deal-lifts-meat-packing-companies


Ambassador Portman said, "Although we appreciate this step toward normalized beef trade with Korea, we are extremely disappointed that Korea did not fully open its market to all U.S. beef products. We will continue to urge Korea in the strongest terms to open its market without delay to U.S. bone-in beef, variety meats, and offal. Together these products historically accounted for approximately 50 percent of U.S. beef exports to Korea."

http://americancorners.or.kr/e-infousa/wwwh3298.html


Subject: US Senator Threatens to Block South Korea Deal Date: April 2, 2007 at 8:33 am PST

US Senator Threatens to Block South Korea Deal

U.S. lawmaker threatened to block a major trade deal with South Korea just hours after it was agreed on Monday. Reuters. A senior U.S. lawmaker threatened to block a major trade deal with South Korea just hours after it was agreed on Monday, saying U.S. negotiators failed to ensure sufficient access for U.S. beef exports. "I will not allow it to move through the Senate, unless and until Korea completely lifts its ban on U.S. beef," Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the influential Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement.

"This is an entirely unacceptable outcome."

A hard line from Baucus and other members of Congress could be trouble for the deal, which officials wrapped up after a marathon negotiating session in Seoul.

Baucus, a Democrat from the cattle state Montana, said South Korea must open its markets to all beef exports, including meat from animals of any age, both bone-in and boneless.

The senator has been a harsh critic of Korean officials' decision to reject three U.S. beef shipments since late last year that contained trace bone chips.

That dispute was not formally part of the negotiating agenda but became a litmus test for U.S. agriculture's support for the pact.

The beef industry is keen to see beef trade resume fully with South Korea, which was the third largest customer for U.S. beef until mad cow disease was discovered in the United States in 2003.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was upbeat about the deal's chances, even in a Democratic-controlled Congress that has been skeptical of the administration's trade agenda.

"We're hopeful, it's always difficult to pass trade legislation in Congress ... But because America benefits from trade opportunities, and we believe that, at the end of the day, people will recognize that," she said.

Negotiators were rushing to finish the deal so it can be voted on under the president's current trade negotiating powers, which expire at the end of June. (Additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky in Washington)

Published: April 02, 2007 17:11h

http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=32047



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MAD COW DISEASE, AND U.S. BEEF TRADE

MAD COW DISEASE, CJD, TSE, SOUND SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL

http://usdameatexport.blogspot.com/2009/10/mad-cow-disease-and-us-beef-trade.html



Stupid is, as Stupid Does.


TEST TO _FIND_ BSE/TSE, TEST, TEST, TEST, problem solved. ...TSS