Payments warning to processors ; There can be no justification for any continuation of price discrimination following the lifting on Monday of the age limit at which vertebral column must be removed from beef carcasses from 24 to 30 months, says the NFU.

From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) | Date: April 30, 2008 | Copyright information

There can be no justification for any continuation of price discrimination following the lifting on Monday of the age limit at which vertebral column must be removed from beef carcasses from 24 to 30 months, says the NFU.

Bse control measures brought in nearly two years ago, setting the age limit at 24 months, imposed additional processing costs of up to pounds150 per carcass on beef from older animals.

Those costs were passed on to farmers through lower prices, while the rule a...

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