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Lifting of French beef ban welcomed

10/10/2002

Both the British government and the European Commission have welcomed the French government’s decision to lift its ban on British beef.

The decision brings France into line with the rest of the European Union, which removed its embargo in 1999. It followed a ruling from the French food safety agency FSSA that the meat was no longer contaminated with BSE.

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