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Article: United States suspends imports of French meat products, including foie gras
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- February 24, 2004
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ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-24-2004
Dateline: PARIS
The United States is suspending imports of all French processed meat and poultry products, including cold cuts and delicacies like creamy foie gras, because of food safety concerns, officials in France and the United States said Tuesday.
U.S. experts who inspected plants in France starting last month said they didn't conform with U.S. food safety requirements. Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service found the sanitation systems failed to meet U.S. standards, said Steve Cohen, a department spokesman.
Cohen did not specify the problems but said that officials believe the ...