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Aussie beef producers can anticipate limits on Asian exports
14 Feb 2005
Australia's beef industry could suffer the same cattle health scares that have hit US and Canadian beef exports, agribusiness lender Rabobank warned. Rabobank warned in a report on Australian agriculture that the absence of the US and Canada from the international market had been due to "unclear, inconsistent and, to many, unscientific market-access restrictions imposed by importing countries". Japan and Korea banned American and Canadian beef for more than a year due to the discovery of isolated cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or BSE, also known as "mad cow" disease). Rabobank said Japan could require Australia’s beef exporters to follow the same protocols before slaughter now required of US producers. These include birth certificates and movement records for each cow.
The Age, 14/022/05
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