Texas beef company plant barred from shipping beef to South Korea
The USDA’s decision came soon after the country suspended some US beef imports because it detected the cattle-feed-additive zilpaterol in meat supplied by the company.
South Korea said on Wednesday that it had found zilpaterol, an animal growth enhancer, in 22 tonnes of beef from a work site of Swift Beef, a unit of JBS USA Holdings Inc. South Korea asked the United States to verify the cause of the contamination.