New Import Conditions for U.S. Beef

SOUTH KOREA - The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries plans to proclaim new conditions for the import of U.S. beef on Tuesday. The announcement is expected to include safety requirements for U.S. beef agreed during Korea-U.S. negotiations on April 18, plus Korean rights to quarantine inspection agreed in follow-up negotiations.
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With that, inspection of U.S. beef, halted since October last year, will resume, and the meat will finally hit the shelves here in early June. Before the new agreement, only boneless beef from cattle under the age of 30 months had been allowed in. However, with the agreement, any parts of cattle of any age except for specified risk materials (SRM) including tonsils, distal ileum, brain, eyes, spinal cord, skull, dorsal root ganglia and vertebral column will be admitted.

Source: Digital Chosun
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