A NEW case of Foot and Mouth Disease was discovered in Japan on Monday.
It follows an unprecedented FMD outbreak in Japan's Miyazaki region in April, which has so far resulted in 188,753 animals - 153,676 pigs and 35,019 cattle - being destroyed, according to the World Organisation of Animal Health.
Since the first reported case in April there have been 290 outbreaks of FMD recorded with the WOAH.
Movement restrictions in the infected areas were gradually being removed, however following the new FMD infection discovered on Monday in a cow, the outbreak is not over.
The self-imposed export ban on all beef is still in place except to Hong Kong and Macau.
According to Meat and Livestock Australia, weak market conditions in Japan held back Australian beef and veal exports for June back 14 per cent year-on-year, to 27,691 tonnes shipped weight.
MLA reported demand for Japanese beef was seasonally slow in June.
Last year the Miyazaki region was the third-largest supplier of beef cattle within Japan, accounting for about 15 per cent of all Wagyu calves to the nation's lot feeders.
