The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday said that the soon-to-be imported Canadian beef is subject to the same restrictions as the beef that is currently sanctioned for importation from the US.
The requirements for beef and beef products from Canada and the US authorized to enter the local market are laid down in accordance with the Act Governing Food Sanitation (食品衛生管理法), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) guidelines and the bilateral agreements, the FDA said.
Beef and beef products exported from the countries to Taiwan have to be or made of edible parts of healthy cattle less than 30 months of age at the time of slaughter, excluding specified risk materials.
The risk materials are those considered as “harmful to human health” as specified in the Act, which include skulls, brains, eyes, spinal marrow, ground beef and viscera.
As with the US beef, Canadian beef will be subject to batch-by-batch inspections of their official documents at the port of entry, the agency said.
And to protect consumers’ rights to information about the products, since September 2012 food products that contain beef or edible parts of cattle as raw materials sold in packages or loose and restaurants offering beef meals have been required to clearly label the country of origin of the beef used.
Canada is one of the countries recognized by the OIE as having a controlled Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy risk, the FDA said.
So far 57 countries and regions, including the US, 28 EU countries, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, have allowed the importation of Canadian beef, the administration said.
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