JAPAN EXPECTED TO LOOSEN BEEF IMPORT RULES IN 2013
November 1st, 2012
BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO
THE JAPANESE government has signalled that it will relax its rules on beef imports in the early part of 2013.
After hearing the opinions of a 13-strong expert panel, ministers said they would raise the age limit on livestock used to source beef imports to 30 months from the present 20 months. The new rules could be applied at first to beef from the US, Canada, France and the Netherlands.
Japan has imposed widespread controls on beef and cattle imports to keep bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), blocking European Union (EU), for ...
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