THERE ARE no standards governing corned beef in the region.
But, said the technical officer responsible for Standards at the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ), Fulgence St Prix, World Trade Organisation (WTO) standards allowed Barbados and other islands to move quickly to deal with the tainted beef and beef by-products that came from Brazil.
The technical officer was speaking to the WEEKEND NATION after attending the 10th European Development Fund/Technical Barriers to Trade (EDF-TBT) programme regional press conference at CROSQ’s headquarters at Baobab Towers yesterday.
St Prix stressed the corned beef issue was a sanitary phyto-sanitary (PSP) problem coming out of Brazil, where investigators have discovered breaches in sanitary conditions. This breach has resulted in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Dominica, St Lucia and The Bahamas, as well as major importer China, banning beef products from the South American country. (HLE)
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