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Tag: Terence Johnson

  • Tuesday, September 13th 2011 - 05:16 UTC

    BPU Meat Uruguay responds to UK Hereford beef labelling controversy

    Terence Johnson “Uruguay is within the top five countries in the world for food safety”

    On September 10th MercoPress reproduced a piece from Meat Trade News Daily (UK farmers claim Uruguay’s ‘Hereford’ meat labelling is ‘misleading’) in which the UK National Farmers Union, NFU called on Asda supermarkets to change its labelling policy after it emerged that its meat marked ‘Hereford Prime Beef Sirloin Steak’ is sourced 6,800 miles away in Uruguay.