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                    [Title] => RP lifts ban on meat and bone meal imports from US
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MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The Philippine agriculture department has lifted the temporary ban on meat and bone meal imports from the US as global health authorities has certified that incidence of mad cow disease in this country has been controlled.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-18 00:00:20 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279160 [Title] => DA lifts ban on cattle, meat imports from Canada [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) lifted the temporary ban on the importation of Mad Cow Disease-plagued cattle meat and meat products from Canada.

Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap recently signed Memorandum Order No. 7 Series of 2005, lifting the ban following the Canadian government’s implementation of measures to contain the outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease and ensure food safety in Canada.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235090 [Title] => No mad cow-infected beef will reach RP, says USDA [Summary] => The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) assured yesterday that no US beef contaminated with the dreaded mad cow disease will ever find its way into the Philippine market.

In yesterday’s press briefing, a USDA delegation dispelled growing concerns that US beef exported to the Philippines could be tainted with mad cow disease.

Mad cow disease is the layman’s name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234948 [Title] => Gov’t tightens rules on entry of beef from US [Summary] => The Department of Agriclture (DA) is enforcing strict measures to prevent the entry of beef from the US that could be contaminated with the dreaded mad cow disease.

Under memorandum order 33 issued by Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr., only deboned and deglanded beef from cattle not older than 30 months and, devoid of any nerves and other BSE specified risk materials (SRM) can be imported.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136187 [Title] => RP to adopt Asean stand vs ‘mad cow’ [Summary] => The Philippines will take more stringent measures to protect its livestock against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or ‘mad cow’ disease by adopting applicable steps it jointly agreed with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

This was disclosed yesterday by Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor after attending the 23rd meeting of the ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia, last Oct. 4, and in reaction to reports the disease has already reached Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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