Beef from Britain - and some other European countries - is banned in the US.

Britain donated food - including beef - to the Hurricane Katrina victims and, for a while, the fact that our banned beef was being fed to people wasn’t noticed. Now it has been and so products containing the offending item are being kept in storage.

US officials are looking to forward the stuff to countries who are less fussy about eating our meat. In the meantime, they may eventually discover that, the UK having sorted out our infected beef problem, they might be better of with ours than theirs.