Another perplexing move by USDA:
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=240678USDA Pursues Rule To Widen US Access To Imported Beef
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Department of Agriculture is in the final stages of drafting a new federal rule to allow countries easier access to the U.S. beef market -
even those countries that continue to report finding new cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. The "comprehensive" beef and cattle importation rule has been years in the making at USDA and would replace a patchwork of existing laws now governing what a BSE-troubled country has to do to sell beef to the U.S. It also aims to bring the U.S. into full compliance with standards laid out by the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health, known more commonly by the acronym OIE.
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But at least we will have COOL:
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USDA To Unveil Meat Origin Label Law This Week For Sep Start
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Department of Agriculture is set to unveil this week its new rule to govern how retailers are to begin placing country-of-origin labels on meat products beginning Sept. 30. The primary role of "interim final" rule, which the USDA is scheduled to publish this week in the U.S. Federal Register, is to inform the industries it will affect so they can be prepared, according to a pre-publish copy of the document. Beef, pork, chicken, lamb and goat meat products will have to be labeled when the subsequent "final" rule is implemented on Sept. 30.
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