Japan accelerates the purchase of soybean meal (12.22)

OA show ('918 '); soybean meal sales to Japan will increase slightly after Tokyo's decision to ban all meat based animal feed from the European Union, suppliers to Asia's major soybean meal markets told Reuters today "There will be some demand in Japan," said one Singaporean grain and meat trader Once the ban comes into effect on January 1 next year, we may see some businessmen start to negotiate supply contracts " "Japan is looking for some soybean meal, but the quantity will not be very large," said another Singaporean soybean meal trader Japan decided to ban all meat based animal feed from the European Union because of growing domestic concerns about the spread of mad cow disease, a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture said last week The ban will take effect in January, but the official did not say how long it would last China feed industry information network f9k (author:)