Texas beef company plant barred from shipping beef to South Korea

A Swift Beef Company plant in Cactus, Texas, is not eligible to ship beef to South Korea, the US Department of Agriculture has said.
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.

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