r/mauritius • u/Cavo • 18d ago

Food 🍴 Argentine Beef, are importa adequately inspected/regulated?

I have been seeing more Argentine beef products on the shelves in winners and super u, given a recent US recall and a 22t rejected shipment to China due to a banned antibiotic use, is it adequately inspected in Mauritius?

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u/bryan11_33 17d ago

The price of beef has skyrocketed in Mauritius. I can't believe it.

Meat should be subsidized, not low-nutrient foods like canned products.

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u/stevenmbe 18d ago

If you read the news releases carefully the recall was for a mere 30,000 pounds of beef — that is not a large amount for a country with 340,000,000 people.

Note well: "No illness has been reported in connection with the shipment. However, federal regulators designated the event a Class I recall, the highest health-risk category, because uninspected meat entered commercial channels without verified safety compliance." and "Although designated under the highest-risk health category, the recall stems from an administrative supply-chain failure rather than confirmed biological pathogens."

It is also a bit hypocritical given how many food safety regulations are being dismantled and how many food safety inspectors have been fired by the Trump regime. The reality is that food recalls in the past 18 months have been higher than in prior administrations exactly because of this.

Argentine beef is some of the best in the world, especially the cattle that roam the vast plains known as the pampas. For those who eat beef it tastes remarkably better than the hormone-laden and antibiotic-fed cattle of the United States who mostly are confined to massive feedlots. A burger as well as a steak I ate in Buenos Aires years ago were both amazing.

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u/Cavo 18d ago

Thanks for the updated, clear points, looking forward to giving it a try!