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A ninth Australian meatworks has been suspended from trading meat to China.
Brisbane-based Australian Country Choice (ACC) was alerted by Australian authorities this morning that its trade to China has been suspended from October 18.
In a statement, ACC said that Chinese authorities had detected a chemical often used to treat bacterial infections in dogs in meat that had been processed at its Cannon Hill abattoir.
"The reasons provided to Department of Agriculture Water and Environment (DAWE) from Chinese authorities was for frozen product received in China that failed a random sampling test for chloramphenicol on beef products inspected at the entry port of Ningbo," the ACC statement said.
"Random product testing that could identify this drug is also conducted at other ports of entry to the EU, Korea and Japan, among others.
"DAWE has advised ACC that it has not received any recent advice of detections from import agencies in these markets."
The department has requested a second test to confirm the findings.
ACC said chloramphenicol was a drug used to treat bacterial infections in dogs and sometimes horses, but was not prescribed for use in cattle in Australia.