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Thu 05 May 2004France may absorb Irish beef displaced in UKFrance has the best potential to absorb Irish beef which is about to become displaced from the British market when BSE restrictions are lifted there, it was learned yesterday.Bord Bia's European Beef Forum heard on Tuesday that €200 million worth of Irish beef currently exported to Britain is likely to be displaced when British beef aged over 30 months is allowed back into the foodchain, probably in April 2005.