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About 15,000 pounds of U.S. beef arrived in Taiwan on Saturday
and cleared customs that evening. The beef will now undergo
examination by top food safety officials from the Bureau
of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, and
should reach restaurants and supermarkets by Tuesday.
Taiwan, like South Korea, allows only boneless beef from
animals under 30 months of age to enter the country from
the United States.
Taiwan had lifted its ban on U.S. beef last April, but reimposed
it in early June when the United States reported that an
earlier case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, originally
reported as a negative test result, was in fact the country's
first native case of BSE. The Taiwanese government came
under intense criticism, particularly from cattle farmers
and consumer groups, for what was seen as a hasty decision
to reopen its market.
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