Mexico Further Relaxes Its Ban on U.S. Beef

Mexico opened its border to a wider array of U.S. beef products, including trimmings, livers, tongues, lips, hearts and kidneys, in a further lifting of a ban imposed on U.S. beef imports after the discovery of a single case of mad cow disease at a Washington state farm.

The newly allowed cuts will have to come from meat packing plants approved by Mexican authorities and will have to come from cows younger than 30 months that have never been exposed to animal-based feed, Mexico’s Agriculture Department said.

Mexico will continue to ban imports of U.S. ground beef, mechanically separated beef and other products that could contain bone marrow or spinal material.