PORTUGAL EMBARGO
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMBARGO on Portugal exporting beef and cattle to the rest of the European Union (EU) will be lifted, after the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health agreed the country had sufficiently improved its anti-BSE controls. A ban was imposed in 1998 following concerns about inadequate management of a series of outbreaks.
THE EMBARGO on Portugal exporting beef and cattle to the rest of the European Union (EU) will be lifted, after the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health agreed the country had sufficiently improved its anti-BSE controls. A ban was imposed in 1998 following concerns about inadequate management of a series of outbreaks.
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