Beef recall affects trade negotiations (Lexington Herald-Leader) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Friday he wants to wait to see the results of an investigation into the nation's largest beef recall before making any policy changes, but he acknowledged that the debacle has delayed negotiations to ship U.S. beef to Japan and South Korea. Those markets closed to the U.S. cattle industry in 2003 after a scare over mad cow disease. Speaking before meat ... [News Source]

Beef Recall Impacts Trade Negotiations (San Francisco Chronicle) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Friday the nation's largest beef recall has set back negotiations to ship U.S. beef to Japan and South Korea. Those markets closed to the U.S. cattle industry in 2003 after a scare over mad cow disease.... [News Source]

Agricultural Secretary: Trade Negotiations Set Back Due To Beef Recall (KTHV Little Rock)

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says the nation’s largest beef recall has set back negotiations to ship U.S. beef to Japan and South Korea. Those markets closed to the U.S. cattle industry in 2003 after a scare over mad cow disease.

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Inspectors, watchdogs say shortages threaten meat supply safety (Fond du Lac Reporter) LOS ANGELES (AP) Sometimes, government inspectors responsible for examining slaughterhouse cattle for mad cow disease and other ills are so short-staffed that they find themselves peering down from catwalks at hundreds of animals at once, looking for such telltale signs as droopy ears, stumbling gait and facial paralysis. The ranks of inspectors are so thin that slaughterhouse workers often ... [News Source]

UAE permits import of Japanese beef (Japan Today) TOKYO — The United Arab Emirates has allowed an import of 18 kilograms of Japanese beef as an exception to its ban imposed after the discovery of mad cow disease in Japan, the agricultural ministry said Friday. [News Source]

Ag Secretary: Trade negotiations set back due to beef recall (San Francisco Chronicle) Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says the nation's largest beef recall has set back negotiations to ship U.S. beef to Japan and South Korea. Those markets closed to the U.S. cattle industry in 2003 after a scare over mad cow disease. Schafer... [News Source]

Top Links From This Story: (The San Francisco Examiner) Those markets closed to the U.S. cattle industry in 2003 after a scare over mad cow disease. Schafer said Friday at a convention of meat packers and processors in Monterey that he's hopeful trade talks will continue, but says the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. [News Source]

A recall, reason to worry. The massive beef recall may be a proper retaliatory move, but it still comes after the fact. Neither the USDA nor the public should feel assured that our food is as safe as it should be. [News Source]

‘Nightmare’ as schools destroy recalled meat. Sonoma County schools are destroying more than 300 cases of recalled meat from the Southern California meat packing company accused of sending at-risk cattle into the food supply. [News Source]

Local schools affected by beef recall. At least eight Flathead, Montana school districts received beef products that were part of the largest meat recall in the history of the United States Department of Agriculture. [News Source]