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Bone chip nixes Creekstone from South Korea

HAY MAKER

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Bone chip nixes Creekstone from South Korea
Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 4:33 PM

USDA Deputy Undersecretary Chuck Lambert says the South Koreans went to great lengths to find a tiny piece of bone in a shipment of U.S. beef from Kansas processor Creekstone Farms.

Lambert says the Koreans have zero tolerance for bone chips. But he says it’s the way they’ve handled the initial post BSE U.S. shipment that bothers him.

“It’s disappointing that they’ve gone to the lengths that they have to identify this small, very small piece of bone in nine tons of product,” says Lambert.

The discovery of the .4-inch bone fragment in the nine metric ton shipment led South Korea to announce that they’re suspending imports from Creekstone. It was the first shipment of U.S. beef to that country in nearly three years following their certification of 36 U.S. plants from which they would accept beef.

South Korean officials said imports of beef from other approved plants will not be affected, however those packers have been reluctant to ship beef to South Korea because of that country’s lack of tolerance for bone chips.
 
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Anonymous

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In a couple of the articles I saw today Johanns said it wasn't even bone- it was a fingernail size piece of "gristle"... :roll:
 

Econ101

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This is what happens when confidence is lost in your food safety programs and your reputation is gone.

The USDA has a lot to answer for keeping US beef out of other countries so big global packers can make their money and pay off the politician handlers.

Milking the market they are supposed to be protecting.
 
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