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Blair to resist beef export demands

- 30 November 1999
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30 November 1999



Blair to resist beef export demands


TONY BLAIR is to resist farmers demands for changes to the date-based export scheme at a “beef summit”.

Farmers were poised to suggest that abattoirs should be allowed to subscribe to the scheme on a daily, rather than permanent basis.

Producers say the scheme is expensive to run — so far only two British abattoirs have signed up for it.

Robert Forster, chief executive of the National Beef Association, forecasts that half a dozen abattoirs would join the scheme if they could operate on a daily basis.

  • FARMERS will also be hoping at the summit on Tuesday that the government will lift the ban on sales of beef on the bone. The chief medical officers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who have so far failed to endorse English recommendations for a lifting of the ban, have now been sent the findings of Oxford University scientists.

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