Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 9/21/16


China will soon allow imports of U.S. bone-in beef, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said last night at a dinner in New York where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly, according to media reports.

“China’s domestic governmental authorities have completed quarantine procedures for U.S. beef on the bone and we will soon have such imports of beef from the United States,” Li told attendees at a business dinner, Reuters reported.

China has banned U.S. beef imports since 2003, citing concerns over the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The World Animal Health Organization considers the risk of the disease “negligible.”

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