{"id":160075,"date":"2022-01-16T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T08:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=160075"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T08:07:56","slug":"asian-countries-suspends-beef-imports-from-canada-because-of-atypical-case-of-mad-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=160075","title":{"rendered":"Asian countries suspends beef imports from Canada because of atypical case of mad cow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OTTAWA, Jan 16 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Several Asian countries have suspended the import of Canadian beef, following a case of mad cow disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, South Korea, and the Philippines have temporarily halted imports of Canadian beef where an \u201catypical\u201d case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, was reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An atypical case is rare and happens spontaneously, as opposed to classical cases caused by contaminated feed. The cow was euthanized on the farm in late December and did not enter the food or animal feed chain, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced. In effect the atypical case refers to an eight year old meat cow in an Alberta farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese types of suspensions with an atypical case should be lifted quickly,\u201d said Dennis Laycraft, executive vice president of the Canadian Cattlemen\u2019s Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However the Asian countries only absorb a minimum percentage of Canadian beef, which is mostly exported (90%) to the United States and Japan. China is supplied mostly by Oceania and Mercosur member countries and only takes 6.5% from Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But trade with China has not been without incidents. Last September, Brazil halted beef exports to China due to reports of two \u201catypical\u201d cases of mad cow disease, a move contemplated in the sanitary protocols between the two countries. China lifted the ban three months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite three months of frozen commercial operations, Brazil managed to remain the world\u2019s largest beef exporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laycraft said that the distinction between classic and atypical, as is the case with Canada should limit the length of any beef export suspension. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Laycraft didn\u2019t go so far as to say there is frustration on the part of CCA regarding the beef import suspensions, he did say those actions differ from how other nations view atypical cases of BSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObviously we\u2019d prefer that like the rest of the world they recognize this as atypical and allow trade to continue uninterrupted,\u201d he said. \u201cI think gradually we\u2019re getting there. There are fewer and fewer instances of this happening.\u201d — NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA, Jan 16 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Several Asian countries have suspended the import of Canadian beef, following a case of mad cow disease. China, South Korea, and the Philippines have temporarily halted imports of Canadian beef where an \u201catypical\u201d case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, was reported. An atypical case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":160076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}