Irish Beef Granted Access To US Market After 15-Year Ban Lifted

Irish beef is to be sold into the US market for the first time in more than fifteen years, the Department of Agriculture has said.

The US banned imports of European beef following the BSE crisis in the late 1990s. Ireland will become the first EU state to return to the US market since that ban was lifted in March.

“This is the culmination of two years of intensive work to prove our credentials as a supplier of highest quality premium beef,” Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said.

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