A ‘hard Brexit’ scenario would be catastrophic for the European meat and livestock sector when the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, Europe’s top meat sector association has warned.
Swedish homeware giant IKEA has stopped sourcing higher-welfare broiler chickens in nine European countries, according to Compassion in World Farming (CiWF).
Ukrainian agricultural holding MHP will double production performance at its Vinitsia Poultry Farm, up to 520,000 tonnes (t) per year by 2021, in order to supply a higher volume of chicken meat for export.
Danish Crown has snapped up a majority stake in South Africa's Overberg Food Distributors, marking the pork giant's first entry into a continent boasting big "potential".
A ban on all beef and pork imports from Brazil, the largest meat importer to Russia, has been imposed by the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), over concerns about the detection of a forbidden hormone.
GlobalMeatNews takes you through a whistle-stop tour of the latest meat-related machines promoted by exhibitors at Gulfood Manufacturing 2017, which organisers called the biggest trade show of its kind in the Middle East.
MPs from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have introduced a draft bill to ban non-stun slaughter. Meanwhile, the proposal has been protested by numerous meat industry associations, which say such a measure would significantly hamper Poland’s...
By Charles Newbery, Diana Yordanova and Keith Nuthall
The Chilean meat and livestock industry has welcomed the launch of talks between the European Union (EU) and the South American country on upgrading the current 14-year-old free trade deal between the two jurisdictions.
Nearly 50% of pig farms in Russia will become loss-making in 2018, due to the poor conditions of the domestic pork market and the high debt burden in the pig industry, Yury Kovalev, the director of the National Union of Pig Producers (NUPP) warned during...
Meat exports from Ukraine have increased by 1.5 times this year to US$397 million in value terms, with the country shedding its previous reliance on Russian markets.
Finland-based meat processor HKScan is pioneering a new system that would enable chickens to be born on the farms they are raised on, rather than in separate facilities.
Australia’s multi-million dollar livestock trade with China has been boosted by the Asian giant’s decision to axe a tax on slaughter cattle and sheep by 1 January 2019.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) call to stop farmers and the food industry from using powerful antibiotics preventatively is “wrong” and “ill-advised”, a US trade body has said.
Romanian poultry meat producer Safir is aiming to report higher revenues and export sales this year, owing to its acquisition of two poultry farms in Botosani, in the country’s eastern region.
Meat sector organisations have warned a UK parliament committee that the industry will suffer dire consequences should Britain crash out from the European Union (EU) in March 2019 without having negotiated a Brexit deal with its current EU partners.
Nearly 60 people have been hospitalised in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, after consuming bear meat infected with trichinellosis, also known as fleshworm disease, the country’s state sanitary body Rospotrebnadzor has announced in a statement on its website on...
Ingredients giant Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) will lead a step-change advance in meat functionality by selling a soy product from its Brazilian plant to the Middle East and Africa.
A senior official at the US Meat Export Federation has told GlobalMeatNews how he regrets small signs of recovery in the US-Russian meat trade have been snuffed out by the latest expansion of Moscow’s meat import ban.
Russia’s agricultural holding Miratorg has invested RUB2.8 billion (US$48.5m) into a leather plant in Bryansk Oblast, Russia - a side business for the company’s largest beef cluster.
Global ingredients and flavours company Kerry Group is helping the world’s largest halal meat business, Brazil’s BRF, launch clean-label meat products.
Italian-owned pork and poultry meat processor Kometa 99 Zrt has announced plans to invest more than HUF 1.3 billion (€4.2 million) in its meat processing plant in Kaposvár, Hungary, with the aim of increasing production capacity.
Poultry operators Tyson Foods Inc and Acacia Foods are to make investments in Zimbabwe-based processor Irvine’s Group as part of plan to target growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
DAT-Schaub CEO Jan Roelsgaard wants several big acquisitions as the Danish Crown subsidiary aims to become the world’s “best” natural casings producer.
Polish meat producer ZM Zakrzewscy has launched a meat-cutting facility, fitted with a total surface of some 3,000 square metres, with the aim of increasing its exports of beef to the European Union, according to senior company representatives.
Failure to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could destabilise the global economy and lead to millions of deaths, the former Prime Minister of Belgium said in a letter to this site.
Meat and livestock producers in the European Union (EU), especially smaller farmers, will be watching Brussels closely early next year, now that EU agriculture and rural development commissioner Phil Hogan has promised to protect them against the market...
Russia's second-largest turkey manufacturer has restored full production, after two outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) in 2016 and 2017, company spokeswoman Olga Grekova has told GlobalMeatNews.
In another move to consolidate Poland’s meat industry, local poultry processor Cedrob SA has obtained permission from the country’s competition watchdog UOKiK to take over a 100% stake in Polish meat processor ZM Silesia SA.
UK meat suppliers are closing on export deals with South Korea and Taiwan and building trade with the US, Japan and Mauritius after announcing a £34m agreement with the Philippines, according to levy body the Agriculture & Horticulture Development...
Hong Kong has temporarily stopped importing poultry from a western province in the Netherlands that culled over 40,000 chickens after a bird flu outbreak.
