/ 31 March 2000

SA TO RECONSIDER BAN ON BRITISH BEEF

DEPUTY Agriculture Minister Dirk du Toit is to lead a delegation to Britain on Saturday to inspect farms and abattoirs as a final step towards lifting a South Africa ban on British beef. The ban, imposed in 1998, was in response to an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow” disease, among Britain’s beef herds. France is the only European Union country still refusing to import British beef.