Two United States Senators have renewed calls for a suspension of US beef imports from Brazil until regulators can conduct a “systemic review of the commodity’s impacts on food safety and animal health.”
Democrat Senator Jon Tester and Republican Mike Rounds, on Friday reintroduced their bipartisan Senate bill to suspend Brazilian beef imports, claiming Brazil has a history of failing to report, in a timely and accurate manner, diseases found in their herds.
The Senators’ move follows the latest detection this week of a suspected atypical BSE case in a Brazilian cow in the…
