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Oldtimer
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 Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject: Korean Consumers Say No to US Beef |
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Like several of us said months ago- even tho we force them to take our products- it isn't going to mean the consumers will buy it....
Wheres Creekstone with its tested Beef?
Maxine- where all this Korean demand you said would come with "sound science"?
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US Beef Being Driven Out of Department Stores
By Kim Hyun-cheol
Staff Reporter
The Korea Times
06-23-2009 20:26
In April when U.S. beef returned to shelves in department stores, it was expected to take a big piece out of the market dominated by homegrown "hanwoo" and Australian beef.
That expectation didn't translate into reality, as U.S. beef sales proved to fall far short of expectations with some retailers poised to yank it off the shelves.
Shinsegae Department Store, one key retailer, said Tuesday it will stop selling U.S. beef in its Masan store in South Gyeongsang Province as early as this week. It has already stopped selling U.S. beef in its grocery section at its Jukjeon store in Gyeonggi Province.
Sales of U.S. beef accounted for only 1 percent of all beef sales, or about 8 million won ($6,199) in those two stores in April and May, before the figure further dropped to around 0.4 percent this month.
In contrast, Australian beef took up about 11 percent in the same period, while customers for hanwoo beef remained over 85 percent, both figures being about the same level before the resumption of U.S. beef sales.
Even attempts to introduce the American import in more branches ended in failure. Shinsegae's latest store in Centum City, Busan, sold U.S. beef when it opened in March, but yanked it off the shelves in a matter of one week due to slumping sales and growing public criticism.
Hyundai Department Store, which started to sell U.S. beef in its five stores in April, is likely to follow suit, with its sales accounting for less than 2 percent of overall beef sales.
The store said that the exact timing of sales suspension was not fixed.
``We will wait and see customers' reactions before making a final decision,'' a spokesman of the franchise said.
U.S. beef sells better in discount stores. It sold 6.2 billion won at E-Mart with its beginning sales in December last year, but monthly sales have kept falling since at the nation's biggest discount franchise to 2.9 billion won last month. Monthly sales were more than halved in Lotte Mart, from 249 tons in last December to 103 tons in May.
Customers still don't appear to feel safe about U.S. beef, local importers say.
``Sales are well below the expectations. Consumers remain concerned about its safety,'' an official of the Korea Import Beef Association said on condition of anonymity.
Australia remains No. 1 among imported beef. In the first five months of the year, it accounted for 54.7 percent of all imports, followed by the United States and New Zealand with their shares tallied at 31.8 percent and 12.5 percent respectively.
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The USDA is getting a well deserved reputation.
I don't know how the people of Nebraska could have voted in Johanns as Senator. They must really be asleep as to the policies that Johanns was over at the USDA.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:59 am Post subject: FOOD SAFETY WHAT ????????????? |
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| Food safety is not a group thing , its proving it with recordkeeping that moves with the product from field to fork. The USDA and FDA have to change their reputations . As of today the voters of congressmen will change their congressmen to vote in new rules or demand better food safety rules which are caused by so many mental mistakes from suppliers. Today, Food safety whether here or abroad is the number one issue.
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Why did NCBA and USDA crawl in bed with AMI/Tyson/Swift/etal and stop Creekstone from testing- and marketing to these folks "tested beef"... 
Whats it been now- 6 years since beef went overseas- and 5 years (2004) since Creekstone offered to test- and market tested beef...
Could have marketed a lot of beef in that time- and rebuilt the US trade quite well in that time....
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No timetable for opening up of U.S. beef: Taiwan DOH
Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2009-06-24 03:27 PM F
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – There is no timetable for full opening of beef from the United States, said Health Minister Yeh Chin-chuan (葉金川) on Wednesday. The key is whether people are able to accept the decision, he said.
The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, also known as mad-cow disease, broke out in 2003, causing a wave of global food scare. The Department of Health (DOH) set a restriction on import of U.S. beef on January 25, 2006, allowing merely boneless meat under 30 months old without viscera and specified risk materials.
The U.S. recently called on Taiwan to open all imports of U.S. beef. Taiwan’s representative in U.S. Jason Yuan (袁健生) confirmed on Tuesday that a U.S. trade delegation had a discussion with Taiwan counterpart on the issue during a recent visit, and “made some progress”.
Yeh told journalists this morning that according to risk assessment made by the department on U.S. beef, the chance of contracting the New variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease by consuming boneless beef is really low, about the same probability of being struck by lightning twice in a row.
Despite the tiny chance, the public still cast doubt on the product, said Yeh. He explained that the mad cow disease is more serious in Europe, while the U.S. only reported three cases, with one cow from abroad. The quantity of imported beef has increased over the past three years, so the government should consider the method of full opening.
Korea modified its regulation on U.S. beef in June 2007. Yeh said Taiwan will take Korea as reference and will not draw up a laxer standard. But he also emphasized that there is no definitely safe food and the key is whether people can accept the lifting of the restriction.
by Taiwan News, Staff Writer
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: Real Common Sense ? |
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I agree that Creekstone was right , of course they ,Creekstone, could come back and try it again as Washington has new faces in town. They might just let them test for BSE .
Read this on Senator Grassley web news cast;
QUESTION: Senator, Tom Rider again. With the House Appropriations Subcommittee, Ag Appropriations Subcommittee cutting funding, zeroing out funding for the National Animal ID Program, does that mean that we'll probably end up seeing a mandatory ID program?
GRASSLEY: Well, you can't administer it without some money, but I would go beyond that -- you've heard me say on this program in the past that it ought to be an extension of the present meat inspection program tracing things back to the family farm. It ought to be paid for by taxpayers if the safety of the food and safety for the consumer is the main interest. Although, there's a subsidiary interest of farmer making sure that the food is safe. But, you know, we've had meat inspection for how many decades paid for by the taxpayer? And this ought to be paid for by the taxpayers, as well.
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Tex
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Creekstone should not have been stopped from testing period. The packers can make them stop additional food safety because it might make everyone have more food safety? That is insane. It is about as insane as not allowing further processors to check and trace back contamination to the original slaughter plant.
I have no idea why Grassley doesn't straighten out some of this stuff. He just keeps letting the packers get away with all their frauds with little more than words. The USDA spent a lot of money on animal ID and the focus groups have come up with some of the most ridiculous rules to give competitive advantage to big players. If Grassley can't see through this kind of garbage and holds whoever is responsible for these ridiculous rules he should just get off of the Agriculture Committee. Agriculture needs someone who can see the movements of the oligarchs in the USDA, not just people who can't counter it properly. It is systemic in the USDA and needs to be ferreted out.
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PORKER
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:01 am Post subject: Duh! |
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| Wait till the next big Meat recall or BSE problem!
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Which test for BSE is proven successful and when was it marketed?
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Which test for BSE is proven successful and when was it marketed?
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none were allowed in the U.S. although other countries did have them.
You know this stuff, mrj.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:40 am Post subject: |
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Which test for BSE is proven successful and when was it marketed?
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Are you trying to tell us that there are no proven BSE tests?
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:43 am Post subject: OK |
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| MRJ , Why don't you ask Flounder to give you a list of BSE tests approved for the US.
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