Brussels, 05/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - Following the green light given by Washington to imports of Irish beef meat to the American market, the European Commission called on the United States, on Monday 5 January, gradually to reopen its market to all exports of European beef, which have been frozen since January 1998 in reaction to the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - or mad cow disease - which hit the EU at the time.
The reopening of the American market to Irish beef,...