EU ARGENTINA BEEF BAN
September 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Union has suspended the shipment into the EU of de-boned and maturated bovine meat from northern Argentina following reports of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs in certain provinces. The European Commission said the EU's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health had voted in favour of the ban which will apply to meat from the departments of Ramon Lista in the province of Formosa and from General Jose de San Martin, Rivadavia, Oran, Iruya and Santa Victoria in the Province of Salta, where the outbreak has been ...
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