The products were imported from Bangladesh and Myanmar, countries ineligible to export Siluriformes fish product to the United States.

Russia is set to impose new restrictions on its meat imports, which are expected to be related to concerns over use of the feed additive ractopamine in Canadian livestock.

Japan has halted beef imports from a Cargill plant in Schuyler, Neb., after American authorities failed to confirm that beef from the plant without proper documents met Japan’s animal age requirements.

Despite the discovery of a BSE-infected cow in California, major importers increased their purchases of U.S. beef in the last week.

Russia will reduce pork and poultry import quotas after it gains entry to the World Trade Organization, RIA Novosti said, citing Andrei Slepnyov, the country’s deputy economy minister.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will begin implementing its Public Health Information System (PHIS) by the end of this year.PHIS is designed to be a unified, real-time data