May 13, 2014

Kazakhstan bans beef imports from Australia
 

Kazakhstan has banned meat imports from Australia, due to the presence of a veterinary drug, according to the Kazakh Agency for Consumer Protection.

"Kazakhstan as introduced a temporary sanitary measure to ban the import and sale of meat of the chilled beef, under trade name "Black Angus Ribeye" (produced in Australia), in the content of which was found a veterinary drug dangerous to human health - trenbolone acetate on the results of sanitary-epidemiological examination," the agency said.

Trenbolone acetate is a growth stimulant - an anabolic steroid used in veterinary medicine to increase muscle mass in cattle and has a negative impact on human health with a variety of side effects (increased blood pressure, insomnia, aggressiveness, baldness, etc.), the report said.

The laws of the member states of the Customs Union state that the use of veterinary drugs (feed additives, animal growth promoters, veterinary drugs) are not allowed in the production of raw food of animal origin.