Japan - Ministry suspended imports of pork and processed pork from Austria

22-Feb-2010 (16 years 3 months 17 days ago)
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry suspended imports of pork and processed pork from Austria on Tuesday after finding a shipment of sausages from an Austrian company that contained banned beef.

Japan imposed a ban on beef imports from the European Union in 2001 following a number of cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy-infected cattle in some EU countries.