date:Nov 06, 2013
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has called off the ban placed on European beef opening the market for export after nearly 16 years.
The USDA had refrained imports of any EU beef, including deboned beef earlier in 1997 raising concerns over the BSE breakthrough.
The Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or usually called mad cow disease was struck largely among the UK cattle in 1996, after which the European Union (EU) banned exports of British beef with the US following the