The Koreans have once again rejected US beef now for, alleged dioxin poisoning. Here is a good article about how the Koreans are finding every excuse they can to close their market to US beef. The US beef industry should hire scientists to test Korean beef for dioxin and publish their own findings.Â
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5:31 am on December 28th, 2006 1
[...] Conveniently after the bone chips were found and disputed by the US government than the Koreans found dioxin poisoning in the beef. Dioxin poisoning isn’t as ominous as the Korean government would lead you to believe. The small trace amounts of dioxin come from the environment from cattle breathing in for example burned plastic or smoke from power plants and factories. If you have ever smelled burned plastic guess what, you have dioxin in you. The trace amounts are not enough to harm anyone, but the Korean government is going to use whatever they can to keep the domestic beef market closed to the US cattle industry. [...]
8:32 pm on June 22nd, 2007 2
[...] US and South Korea have had a continuous back and forth fight over the status of US beef in Korea. The Koreans are looking for anything to ban US beef in order [...]