Country-of-Origin Labeling

Final rule keeps provisions from proposed rule on labeling for each production step and prevents commingling of meat from different origins.

“There’s no other market that can absorb the beef volume and the value of what we’re selling into Japan,” said Kent Bacus, NCBA director of trade and market access. “We have level the playing field.”

Argentina’s new government has informally lifted restrictions on beef exports imposed by the previous government in a bid to ensure reasonable prices at home, the secretary for agriculture, livestock and fisheries told