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Canadian meat imports face greater USDA scrutiny

HAY MAKER

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Monday, November 5, 2007, 6:28 AM

by Peter Shinn

USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety Dr. Richard Raymond announced Saturday that USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will increase testing requirements for meat and poultry imports from Canada effective immediately. Moreover, Raymond said USDA was conducting a broad review of the entire Canadian food safety and inspection system.

"Effective next week, FSIS will increase testing for Salmonella, Listeria Monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7 and will require that shipments be held until testing is complete and products are confirmed negative for these pathogens," Raymond said in a statement. "In addition, Canadian meat and poultry products will receive increased levels of re-inspection by FSIS to confirm they are eligible to enter commerce when presented at the U.S. border."

The move comes after an e-coli O157:H7 outbreak that caused dozens of illnesses in eight states in recent weeks, resulting in one of the largest ground beef recalls in American history and driving under New Jersey-based Topps Meat Company, a firm with no previous recalls that had been in business for more than 60 years. But Topps wasn’t the source of the e-coli. It was a Canadian firm called Ranchers Beef Ltd. that sold Topps beef trimmings to make hamburger. And Raymond suggested USDA's investigation of Canada's food safety system would center on that now-defunct Canadian company.

"FSIS will also immediately begin an audit of the Canadian food safety system that will focus on Ranchers Beef, Ltd. and will include other similar establishments that export beef to the U.S.," Raymond added in the statement.

A top Canadian meat industry official reacted with dismay to Saturday's announcement. Canada Beef Export Federation President Ted Haney told the Toronto Globe and Mail the new U.S. testing policy amounts to "a disruption of trade, a disruption of price and a disruption of production" that "simply can't be justified."

Haney noted that USDA made the decision to impose tougher testing on Canadian meat "without consultation" on a unilateral basis. And he said doing so likely violated existing treaty obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.

Raymond described the new testing requirements as "interim" measures. He indicated the new rules could be lifted after USDA completes its audit of Canada's food safety and inspection system.
 

HAY MAKER

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This ted haney sob,is definetly part of the problem,I still say until canada can put forth a quality safe product,the border needs clamped tight................good luck
 
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Haney noted that USDA made the decision to impose tougher testing on Canadian meat "without consultation" on a unilateral basis. And he said doing so likely violated existing treaty obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.

BullPuckey-- We're supposed to allow a country to ship in tainted product-- that their own government has admitted was found to be tainted and issued recalls on- that again has cost a multi-billion dollar disruption in our US beef industry and has sickened and killed US consumers just because some idiotic trade agreement :???: :( :mad:

Yep-- Haymaker- Haney takes the cake...This is one time he should have just shut up and slinked back in his Packer-backer hole....
 

rkaiser

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What better way could you two think of to change what is beeing suggested as the least margin the packers are seeing on boxed beef since 1999 than to decrease both demand at the consumer level and supply from them easily manipulated Canuckleheads. Way to squeeze those American feedlots Tyson and Cargill (which includes Pork and Chicken in the shareholders portfolio.) Once that margin settles in again, the ecoli games will end and they may actually give the beef thing a bit of a shove with the help of their USDA flunkies once again. American beef - who needs that - they will soon be bringing in more than enough from South America to squeeze you two patriots for the rest of your careers and more.

Follow the money you two old rednecks. They do need you right now to keep slammin Canada however - so go on - be used once again.
 

PORKER

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BullPuckey-- We're supposed to allow a country to ship in tainted product--Ted Haney QUOTEs;While Canadian government agencies and cattle producer organizations had yet to officially comment Sunday, the Canadian Press (CP) news agency quoted Ted Haney, president of the Canadian Beef Export Federation, as saying major beef processors in Canada had already decided to either shut down for the next few days or slow their production and not ship to the U.S.

Got to get those packers and CBEF on the same page.
 

HAY MAKER

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Randy,you better get those easily manipulated canuckleheads to working in the right direction,the way they are going now,be a damned miracle if the canadian cattle industry survives the winter.............good luck

PS aint there some way we could blame R Calf for this :???:
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Haney noted that USDA made the decision to impose tougher testing on Canadian meat "without consultation" on a unilateral basis. And he said doing so likely violated existing treaty obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.

BullPuckey-- We're supposed to allow a country to ship in tainted product-- that their own government has admitted was found to be tainted and issued recalls on- that again has cost a multi-billion dollar disruption in our US beef industry and has sickened and killed US consumers just because some idiotic trade agreement :???: :( :mad:

Yep-- Haymaker- Haney takes the cake...This is one time he should have just shut up and slinked back in his Packer-backer hole....

Once again, the lunacy of trade agreements we're in that have no consideration for safety shows the lunacy of being in them in the first place.
 
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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
Haney noted that USDA made the decision to impose tougher testing on Canadian meat "without consultation" on a unilateral basis. And he said doing so likely violated existing treaty obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.

BullPuckey-- We're supposed to allow a country to ship in tainted product-- that their own government has admitted was found to be tainted and issued recalls on- that again has cost a multi-billion dollar disruption in our US beef industry and has sickened and killed US consumers just because some idiotic trade agreement :???: :( :mad:

Yep-- Haymaker- Haney takes the cake...This is one time he should have just shut up and slinked back in his Packer-backer hole....

Once again, the lunacy of trade agreements we're in that have no consideration for safety shows the lunacy of being in them in the first place.

You'd think the honorable Mr. Haney would be more concerned about the Canadian Packers producing disease free meat- and trying to get the government to allow BSE testing- both so that the Canadian meat is more marketable---- than he would be about whether the letter of the law was followed on some trade agreement :roll: :???:

Again old Haney is trying to "blame it all on the US"....No wonder Canada's cattle industry is going in the dumps......

Haney reminds me of the old cartoon character " I am there Leader--which why did they go, which way did they go"? :wink: :lol: Do a shotgun shoot and blame everyone...

I think if I was a Canadian producer right now- I'd be down the throat of the manager of that rancher owned slaughter plant-- and down the throat of some CFIA and government folks......
 

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