Beef H.K.-Bound, With 30-Month Age Cap
JAPAN - JA Zen-Noh Meat Foods Co. and Itoham Foods Inc. said Wednesday they will be the first firms to ship Japanese beef to Hong Kong since an agreement was signed in April to resume Japanese beef exports after a five-year ban over mad cow diseaseThe beef in the first shipment will retail for around 30,000 yen per kilogram. Hong Kong imposed a ban on Japanese beef after Japan found its first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in September 2001. The ban was lifted on condition that Japan limit its exports to meat from cattle aged up to 30 months and remove brain, spinal cord and other specified risk materials
Source: The Japan Times