AR-News: 37,000 tons of U.S. beef for export in limbo

[Animalconcerns]

DENVER (Reuters) - About 37,000 tons of frozen or chilled beef
industrywide are in transport or at the dock ready to go to countries that
have banned U.S. imports since the first U.S. cow infected with mad cow
disease was discovered last month, a meat company executive said Tuesday.

"They have not cleared customs," Mark Gustafson, senior vice president for
the international division of Swift & Co., told about 100 ranchers at a
symposium on mad cow at the National Western Stock Show.

full story:
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/01/13/rtr1209929.html

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