Lifting the ban on beef trade

Lead: a batch of British beef left for Paris on Thursday to test the appetite of its potential French consumers This is the first time that British beef has entered France since the French government decided to lift the import ban on British beef The beef, which includes British and Welsh brands, will arrive in France on Friday and will be displayed at the sial food and Beverage Exhibition in Paris, which opens next week, according to the special arrangement of the French government On October 2, France announced that it would lift the six-year import ban on British beef caused by mad cow disease, which was once the most important beef export market in Europe With the recent successful shipment of Welsh beef to the Netherlands, the trade restrictions imposed on British beef since the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease last year have been completely broken "Sial is considered the world's largest food and beverage trade show We would like to show our Welsh beef at the show and taste it for trade importers, not regular customers "Lynda James, spokeswoman for the Welsh beef and mutton trade association, said The BMC hopes to show British beef at the show and offer its beef food at a ceremony hosted by the UK and attended by Margaret Beckett, the UK agriculture minister But British exporters have also voiced their concerns that mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease last year have kept haunting British beef, even though groups in the UK and the European Union have confirmed the safety of the products "At present, we don't have any customers in France, but the first step is to show our products and let people see them and taste them "James said (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: