TAIWAN LOOSENS IMPORT CONTROLS ON AMERICAN AND CANADIAN BEEF BY-PRODUCTS
February 8th, 2015
Taiwan is easing its 11-year-old import ban on offal and by-products sourced from United States and Canada-reared cattle over Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) concerns, by planning to classify six types of beef byproducts as “non-internal organs”, effectively clearing the way for their import. Following the Taiwan Food & Drug Administration’s (TFDA) clarification that bone marrow, blood vessels, head meat, cheek meat, weasand and tallow are not banned by the island’s Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade on ...
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