BRITISH MEAT EXPORTERS EYE JAPANESE MARKET AT MAJOR SHOW, NOW BSE-RELATED IMPORT BAN HAS GONE

British beef and lamb producers this week eyed the Japan market following the lifting of a 23-year import ban in January 2019, with a presence at Japan’s Foodex, Asia’s largest food and drink exhibition. Producers from across the UK met Japanese importers, distributors, buyers and consumers at the Makuhari Messe conference centre, near Tokyo, on March 5–8. There, they showcased meats which had been banned in Japan following the UK’s bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in 1996.  Steaks and chops, which were part of the first shipment of ...


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