Japan Halts Beef Imports From Tyson Foods Plant In Illinois
October 26, 2011 | 1 min to read
Japan, the third-largest buyer of beef from the U.S., has suspended imports from a Tyson Foods Inc. meat plant in Hillsdale, Illinois, a company spokesman said.
The suspension of shipments was made “pending a review of an order discrepancy,” Worth Sparkman, a spokesman for Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson, said today in an e-mail. “We are working with the Japanese government to review the facts, and it is our hope the matter will be resolved quickly.”
In the first eight months of this year, Japan bought 311.3 million pounds (141,183 metric tons) of U.S. beef, up 38 percent from a year earlier, U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows. Only Canada and Mexico buy more beef from the U.S., where Tyson is the biggest meat processor.
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