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Beijing confiscates Canadian beef on fear of mad cow disease

HAY MAKER

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BIZCHINA / Center

Beijing confiscates Canadian beef on fear of mad cow disease
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-02-18 09:55

Animal health supervision officers of Beijing have confiscated 60 cartons of beef from Canada which has been hit by mad cow disease.
In a recent inspection tour to a warehouse of a wholesale center at Yuquanying near the southern third ring road, workers of Beijing Animal Health Supervision Institute found a wholesale businessman identified by his surname as Ma stored 60 cartons of beef imported from Canada, weighing more than 2,000 kg.

The cartons of beef with the label "produced in 2005 and 2006" had a market value of 200,000 yuan (25,000 US dollars), the Beijing Times reported.

Canada has been hit by an outbreak of mad cow disease during the period.

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and the State Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine issued a decree banning direct or indirect import of beef from Canada beginning from May 22, 2003.

Ma violated the decree to trade in the imported beef from Canada and relevant stipulations in Animal Epidemic Prevention Law of China, so the beef should be confiscated and be destroyed, said the supervision officers.

Animal health supervision officers also seized beef imported from Brazil with mad cow disease fear in a separate investigation tour made on December 15, 2006 to the same warehouse.

The animal health supervision officers pledged to tighten investigation in the future and make sure that all processed animal products free of pandemic fears in the city.
 
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Anonymous

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Manitoba_Rancher said:
Nice Title there Hayseed!!
Reuters- South Africa

You better jump on these folks too there MR-- It seems its going around the world that way.....



Canada mad cow case delays Mexico import plans
Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:32 AM GMT


MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has postponed plans to reopen its borders to dairy cattle imports from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was found in an Alberta bull last week.

Enrique Sanchez, Mexico's head of animal health, told Reuters on Friday that Mexico would carry out new tests before considering allowing Canadian dairy cow imports.

"This means we have to go back and revise everything again," Sanchez said. "We were three months away from starting trade with Canada, but this is going to take one or two years, we don't know."

Mexico stopped importing beef and cattle from Canada following an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003.

It has since restarted imports of most beef and cattle products, and in December officials said dairy imports would be restarted soon.

Sanchez said one more case of mad cow disease in Canada would be enough for Mexico to close the two countries' beef and cattle trade once again.

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2007-02-17T083234Z_01_BAN730744_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-CANADA-MEXICO-MADCOW-20070217.XML
 

HAY MAKER

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cowsense said:
Haymaker .................Perhaps you could show us just how much of that mad Texas beef you guys ship to China???

We know the Australians have the Chinese market,thanks to you..........what's your point ?..................good luck
 

cowsense

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Haymaker..........The point is that the Chinese see your cattle to be the same risk as Canada's................altho it looks like some Chinese will go the extra mile to get their hands on some good Canadian beef! :lol:
 

HAY MAKER

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cowsense said:
Haymaker..........The point is that the Chinese see your cattle to be the same risk as Canada's................altho it looks like some Chinese will go the extra mile to get their hands on some good Canadian beef! :lol:

Yeah ? who give you that bit of wisdom,some canucklehead, or the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.......LOL good luck
 
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