APHIS Requests Comments on Japan Beef FMD Risk Analysis
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announces the availability of a risk analysis concerning the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) status of Japan and the risk of susceptible animals and animal products from Japan harboring the FMD virus.
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This evaluation will be used as a basis for determining whether APHIS again recognizes Japan as free of FMD and allows the importation of whole cuts of boneless beef from Japan to resume. Other ruminant meat and meat byproducts, as well as fresh pork, live ruminants, and live swine, would remain prohibited due to Japan’s status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, classical swine fever, and swine vesicular disease. Comments are due by September 26, 2011.