S.Korea Bans US Beef Plant After Bones Found Again
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea will permanently block imports from a U.S. beef plant after finding bones in a second shipment in violation of an export agreement with Washington, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.At present, Seoul allows only imports of boneless U.S. beef from cattle less than 30 months old.
Ribs were found in a 15.5-tonne shipment from the plant, which already had been temporarily banned after it sent short bones in July, the ministry said in a statement.
The plant is owned by Swift & Co., said a ministry official who declined to be named.
South Korea will return the beef and will revoke the export permit from the plant.
South Korea, once the third-largest importer of U.S. beef, resumed on Aug. 27 quarantine inspections of U.S. beef after suspending them for a month following the discovery of a prohibited spinal column in a shipment.
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