Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, Chuck Strahl has issued a statement announcing that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has restarted the administrative process to further normalise beef and cattle trade between Canada and the USA.

"Canada's new government is encouraged by the USDA's decision to resubmit its second Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) rule for interagency review by the Office of Management and Budget. This is the last step before publication of the rule for public comment,” he said.