NAMIBIA READY TO EXPORT BEEF TO HONG KONG AFTER MAY AUDIT
May 10th, 2014
NAMIBIA is ready to export its first batch of beef to Hong Kong after an audit carried out last month (May) by the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety.“If all goes well, the country will be the first in Africa to export beef to Hong Kong," Goliath Tujendapi, manager of trade & strategic marketing at the Meat Board of Namibia, told globalmeatnews.com.The audit was based on a “sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) questionnaire requested by the Hong Kong food safety agency,” explained Mr Tujendapi. If all goes well, the mainland Chinese market, too, could open to ...
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