From: TSS (216-119-162-21.ipset44.wt.net)
Subject: Re: BSE .1 GRAM LETHAL NEW STUDY SAYS via W.H.O. Dr Maura Ricketts [USA MBM/GREAVES IMPORTS]
Date: February 2, 2003 at 6:42 pm PST
In Reply to: Re: BSE .1 GRAM LETHAL NEW STUDY SAYS via W.H.O. Dr Maura Ricketts [USA MBM/GREAVES IMPORTS] posted by TSS on February 2, 2003 at 6:40 pm:
Is the US still importing meat and edible meat offals from BSE
countries?
Correspondent opinion: Terry S. Singeltary Sr
Letter submitted to Atlantic Monthly 15 Sept 98
"I hope these governtment websites help you for 1996 and 1997 imports
-- see under ' meat and edible meat offals' section."
Marva Thompson
Foreign Trade Reference Room
202/482-2185
"The U.S. is apparently still importing beef, pork, sheep, and lamb
from countries in which BSE is found [this is probably
completely legal under regulations applicable at time of import--
webmaster]:
Bovine anmls bnlss ex prcssd frozen/U.S. Imports for Consumption 1997
year to date (custom value, in thousands of dollars)
(units of quantity: kilograms)
United Kingdom 37,122 kilograms, 43 thousand dollars
Netherlands 56,260 kilograms, 413 thousand dollars
Canada 18,141,481 kilograms, 23,914 million dollars
Livers of bovine animals, edible, frozen. U.S. Imports for consumption
Netherlands 19,230 kilograms, 25 thousand dollars
Canada 160,632 kilograms, 147 thousand dollars
Tongues of bovine animals, edible, frozen u.S. Imports for consumption
Netherlands 1,047 kilograms, 4 thousand dollars
Canada 767,859 kilograms, 2,028 million
Hi-qulty beef cuts w/bone in prcssd f/c u.S. Imports for consumption
Canada 25,332 kilograms, 37 thousand dollars
Beef cuts w/bone in excpt prcdssd fr/ch u.S. Imports for consumption
Netherlands 5,276 kilograms, 30 thousand dollars
Canada 117,142 kilograms, 353 thousand dollars
Meat bovine anmls cuts w/bone ex prrocssd fr us imports for consumption
Netherlands 51,836 kilograms, 444 thousand dollars
Canada 120,955,010 kilograms, 253,199 million
Cattle hides, whole, fresh or wet-salt u.S. Imports for consumption
Belgium 1,270 pieces, 112 thousand dollars
United kingdom 36 pieces, 3 thousand dollars
Ireland 12,797 pieces, 839 thousand dollars
Italy 50 pieces, 10 thousand dollars
Fr germany 2,500 pieces, 36 thousand dollars
Canada 1,405,430 pieces, 67,320 million dollars
Hides/skins
bovine anmls nesoi whole frh/wet-saltd u.S. Imports for consumption
United kingdom 13 pieces, 1 thousand dollars
Italy 4 pieces, 4 thousand dollars
Germany 9,455 pieces, 139 thousand dollars
Canada 567,816 pieces, 17,196 million dollars
Cattle hides, whole, fresh or wet-salted u.S. Imports for consumption
1998 year to date
Italy 7 pieces, 2 thousand dollars
Ireland 1,408 pieces, 85 thousand dollars
France 25 pieces 2 thousand dollars
Canada 965,355 pieces, 37,244 million dollars
Hides and skins of bovine animals, whole, nesoi, fresh or wet-salted
U.S. Imports for consumption
United kingdom 18 pieces, 3 thousand dollars
Sweden 1 pieces, 1 thousand dollars
Italy 2 pieces, 2 thousand dollars
Germany 5,565 pieces, 72 thousand dollars
Canada 84,327 pieces, 2,257 million dollars
Sheep, lamb skins, no wool, nesoi, pickled not split, u.S. Imports for
Consumption
United kingdom 9,504 pieces, 88 thousand dollars
Sheep, lamb skins, no wool, nesoi, pickled, split u.S. Imports for
Consumption
United Kingdom 149,580 pieces, 1,212 million dollars
Netherlands 50,400 pieces, 267 thousand dollars
Italy 4,175 pieces, 64 thousand dollars
France 13,644 pieces, 57 thousand dollars
Canada 131,642 pieces, 241 thousand dollars
Carcasses and half-carcasses of swine, frozen u.S. Imports for
consumption
United kingdom 85,003 kilograms, 201 thousand dollars
Netherlands 24,000 kilograms, 33 thousand dollars
Ireland 24,567 kilograms, 39 thousand dollars
Fr germany 23,032 kilograms, 32 thousand dollars
Denmark 112,345 kilograms, 168 thousand dollars
Canada 17,889 kilograms, 41 thousand dollars
Hams and cuts therof, bone in processed frsh/chld u.S. Imports for
Consumption
Belgium 9,406 kilograms, 34 thousand dollars
Canada 95,515 kilograms, 172 thousand dollars
Italy 6,459 kilograms, 86 thousand dollars
Flawed inspection of food is a danger, senate panel told
9-11-98 Knight Rider Tribune News
The government's current system to check food imports for possible
health dangers is dangerously flawed, experts in the food
business told a Senate subcommittee Thursday. U.S. inspectors
check only 2 percent of all foreign shipments and consistently
issue low penalties to importers who break the rules, experts
said. Unscrupulous importers typically import large amounts of
products that will not pass (Food and Drug Administration)
inspection, said a former West Coast customs broker.
He said importers easily bypass inspections by docking at
high-volume ports, such as Los Angeles-Long Beach and New
York, where the inspection force is stretched thin.
Inspections are so low there they virtually pass right through.
I hope all of you at THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY find some interest
in this...."
http://mad-cow.org/~tom/sept_mid_98_news.html#offals
TSS
