The U.S. bone-in beef returned to South Korean store shelves on Monday after a nearly five-year suspension.
According to the Nerp Corp, which imported the U.S. bone-in beef shipment on July 29, seven meat stores in Seoul and Busan, along with Gyeonggi, South Chungcheong and South Gyeongsang provinces, have started selling 1.47 tons of short ribs, chuck ribs, rib finger intercostals on Monday.
The company said that a restaurant in Seoul will start serving U.S. beef on Tuesday, while a shipment of 180 tons of ribs is expected to arrive by boat in Busan late this month.
South Korea agreed to resume U.S. beef imports in mid-April. In June, South Korea and the United States reached additional agreements over the beef imports that all U.S. beef should be from cattle under 30 months old. The U.S. bone-in beef had been banned to South Korean market since December 2003, when mad cow cases were found in the United States.
Source:Xinhua
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