Adding to the incongruence, the shipment ban applies to beef, chicken, lamb, pork and goat, but not to some other meats, including alligator, quail, venison, bison, elk and rabbit--so the elk bratwurst Rick Reams has sold at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium could be shipped across state lines.
The import ban "will not have a major impact" on chicken meat processors in Malaysia, said an industry executive from the Federation of Livestock Farmers' Associations of Malaysia, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Some 98 shipments amounting to 4, 800 tons of chicken meat that was already on its way to Malaysia before the ban will be thoroughly tested before "we let them in, " Mr. Abd Aziz said.