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Exports of U.S. beef totaled 103,980 mt in September, up 5% year-over-year, while export value climbed 6% to $843.8 million, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). January-September exports increased 5% in value to $7.82 billion, despite volume falling 2% to 960,814 mt.

Imports of French beef, which were halted in 2000 due to the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease) in Europe, are expected to resume in earnest. The French Embassy in Korea held a press conference on the 4th and announced that it had resumed exports of French beef. For the event, 70 kg of French beef was imported for the first time in 24 years.

[Reporter Lee Jang-hee, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] Gyeonggi Province will begin to investigate the status of implementation of the livestock product history system for the month of November in order to strengthen management of Gyeonggi Province-certified G-Mark brand Korean beef. This is a preemptive measure in response to the neglect of management of the Korean beef livestock product grade history system pointed out during the state audit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in October. Gyeonggi Province conducts 280 projects to check whether the history numbers of slaughtered cattle and Korean beef in distribution match each year, and also promotes 1,400 genetic testing tests on Korean and non-Korean cattle. Separately from this, this strengthening of the history system management will focus on the sales records of G-Mark livestock products in school meals in the past.