Source: FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 10/1/20


The first shipment of beef from the United Kingdom to the United States in more than 20 years was dispatched this week. The U.S. market had been closed to EU beef since January 1998, when the country introduced import restrictions on beef, sheep and goats and their products because of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) concerns. BSE is also called mad cow disease.

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