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U.S. lifts meat import restrictions for certain EU countries
On May 29, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture lifted the import restrictions placed on the following European Union countries where no cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been reported: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Import restrictions will remain in effect for the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Greece, where there have been confirmed cases of the disease …