Taiwan restricts US beef imports

Taiwan has suspended beef imports from a US packing house after finding crushed bones in a shipment from the company, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Saturday.
On Friday, customs official at Keelung Harbour in the north of the island found two pieces of crushed bones in a 4.5-ton shipment of flank imported from the Swift Beef Co of Colorado, the DOH said in a statement.
The two pieces of crushed bones measure 1.5 and 4.5 centimetres. As the US has had several cases of mad cow disease, Taiwan requires that only beef from cows under 30 months old - with bone, nerves and other dangerous parts removed - can be exported to Taiwan.