AUSTRALIAN red meat exporters have fielded urgent inquiries from overseas customers overnight over the safety of Australian beef, following inaccurate and misleading headlines in metropolitan Australian media yesterday.
The developments came after agriculture minister Murray Watt told a press briefing yesterday that fragments of FMD (not the disease itself) had been found in samples of imported processed pork products in a Melbourne market.
It took just hours after headlines like The Australian’s “FMD found in Australia” (see today’s separate report) were published yesterday for…
