Corn Growers Applaud U.S. Japan Quality
Assurance Agreement For Food Corn
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The
National Corn Growers As
sociation (NCGA) welcomed
today’s report that USDA
and Japan’s Ministry of
Health and Welfare have
agreed on a standard method
of testing and exporting of
U.S. corn for food to Japan.
Under the agreement, Jap
anese importers will accept
U.S. corn that has met qual
ity assurance guidelines for
testing, handling, transporta
tion, and identity
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preservation from elevators
to export ships. “Our sam
pling and testing will be ac
ceptable to our Japanese
customers, and that returns
certainty to the market
place,” said NCGA President
Lee Klein, a farmer from
Battle Creek, Neb.
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been approved for feed use in
the U.S., but have not yet
been cleared for food use. In
Japan, Star Link is not ap
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approval is pending in Japan.
“We applaud the hard
work of U.S. and Japanese
officials who negotiated their
way through a very complex
set of regulatory issues and
different testing systems to
achieve a solution that an
swers the needs of each sover
eign trading partner,” Klein
said, noting that NCGA Ex
ecutive Vice President and
CEO Rick Tolman partici
pated in September meetings
between Japanese govern-
.ancaster
. a voluntary quality assurance
ment officials and USDA. process that meets their na-
Those discussions laid the tion . s regu iatory require
groundwork for the testing men ts” Klein said,
agreement. NCGA expects the next de-
This is an indication of velopments will be feed use
the trust the Japanese have m approval of star Link in
the ability of the U.S. grain j apa n and EPA food use ap
marketing system to employ proval of Star Link in the u s
Ag Community Meets
With Senator Harkin
On Farm Bill
: arming, Saturday, March 3,2001,
ORN BITS
NCGA coordi
nated a meeting
with Sen. Harkin
(D-IA), his key agri
culture staff and
several members of
commodity and live
stock organizations
in Washington, D.C.
He spoke on a wide
range of issues in
cluding emergency
payments, the com
modity title of the
next farm bill and
the tax package.
Sen. Harkin also
discussed special in
terests, including the
conservation title of
the next farm bill
and, specifically, his
Conservation Secur
ity Act. He also ad
dressed issues such
as value added and
rural development.
NCGA representa
tives are committed
to work with Sen.
Harkin and the agri
culture committees
on many of these
issues as develop
ment of the farm bill
progresses. The
House and Senate
Agriculture Com
mittees have already
initiated hearings on
the farm policy.
Terry Wolf Repre-
NCGA As C-Far
Terry Wolf of
Homer, 111., has been
named chairman of
the board of direc
tors of the National
Coalition for Food
and Agricultural
Research (National
C-FAR). The coali
tion is a newly
founded, broad
based stakeholder
coalition of food, ag
riculture, nutrition,
natural resources
and conservation or
ganizations with the
goals of increasing
the investment in
food and ag research
by increasing aware
ness of the
research’s impor
tance and value to
the general public.
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senting
Chairman