South Korea's customs authorities announced a set of measures Thursday to ensure the safety of U.S. beef.
Earlier in the day, the government published a legal notice of a recent Korea-U.S. beef deal on its newsletter, the final administrative step prior to the resumption of imports, despite simmering public concerns over mad cow disease.
"We will step up clearance procedures and build a system that can track the country-of-origin of imported beef even after it enters the local market," the Korea Customs Service said.
The service said it also plans to oblige importers to clearly label the age and origin of the meat in a bid to help prevent it from being confused with Korean products in the process of trading.
Any importer that breaks the regulation would be sternly punished.
The customs service said that it will also designate 12 customs clearance offices that will exclusively deal with U.S. beef shipments.
"We will work hard to help our citizens' safe consumption of U.S. beef by minimizing worrying factors that have been raised over the past two months in the customs clearance process," said Lee Jong-wook, deputy director of the service's clearance planning division.
Source:Xinhua
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