UK: LEVELS OF BRITISH BEEF EXPORTS REMAIN DEPRESSED

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The Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) has revealed that levels of British Beef Exports remain depressed one year after the lifting of the European Union ban. A primary reason is the strict regulation of a date-based export scheme, which requires a life history for every animal sent abroad, and states that exports should come from abattoirs devoted solely to this purpose. So far there are only two in the UK, in Cornwall and Scotland. In the year to 2 August 2000, 500 tons of British beef, worth GB[pound] 5mn, was exported to continental Europe, falling from 274,000 tons worth GB[pound] 520mn in the year to March 1996. The level is also being held back by the strength of the pound and the continuing French ban on British beef.

Meat Products

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UK: FRENCH DELEGATION SUPPORTS BAN ON UK BEEF

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A French parliamentary delegation inquiring into food safety has supported the continuing ban on British beef. It criticised British safety standards arguing that traceability, slaughtering and testing methods were unreliable. It was pointed out that the 48 cases of new variant CJD was twenty four times the level found in France. The committee predicted that Britain faces a rash of new cases, as many people will show the symptoms over the next 15 years. French resistance contrasted with a big beef export order from the Netherlands. The contract is to supply GB[pound] 2.5mn worth of beef to Ven International's hotels and restaurants. The order is for 350tons and licensed under the date-based Export Scheme.

Netherlands

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Why we French won't buy your beef

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It is important to understand the reasons behind the French government's decision not to lift the ban on imports of beef from the UK. One of these is the fact that the French authorities failed to prevent many haemophiliacs receiving HIV-infected blood in the 1980s. In the case of beef, the French government wishes to be seen to be taking decisive action on a health issue. Furthermore, public opinion in France is turning against globalization and the World Trade Organisation. This conflict has raised important issues about how to deal with concerns about food safety at European Union level.

France, International Affairs, Intnl Political Relations, Beef, Column, Political aspects, British foreign relations, International relations, Beef industry, French foreign relations

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