Russia may impose a ban on meat product imports from Poland, due to violations of Russia’s veterinary regulations by Polish companies, according to the Alexei Alexeenko, press-secretary of Russian veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor.
Scotch Beef PGI has been launched at a major premium Hong Kong supermarket’s flagship store, as a result of a Scottish visit to HOFEX earlier this year.
Iran’s food security has been damaged by a dramatic surge in meat imports, which have increased by 20 times over the past eight years, according to a report from the country’s National Food Agency.
Pig prices across Europe are 5% higher than last year, despite producers seeing a decline in price in the last two weeks, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has said.
A series of outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been reported in the south of Russia over the past month, prompting Russian vets to take urgent measures to prevent further spread of the disease.
UK pig bosses claim retailers are already backing away from the promises of shorter supply chains made in the wake of the horsemeat scandal and are yet again turning to overseas imports on products like pork and bacon.
Meat processor ABP Food Group is being sued for defamation over claims it made regarding the source of horsemeat in beef burgers produced at its Silvercrest plant.
The European Commission has ordered France and Britain to repay €2.1m in European Union (EU) livestock subsidies, which its officials have decided were misspent.
Russian authorities are conducting an unprecedented cull of 70,000 pigs in the Belgorod Oblast region in a bid to halt the spread of African swine fever (ASF) and protect large pig farms from infection.
The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has praised a planned €3.1m loan to a Ukraine beef producer for setting up a biogas plant as good practice promoting meat sector energy efficiency.
Lithuania, Latvia and Poland are considering building a giant wall on the border with Belarus in a bid to protect themselves from African Swine Fever (ASF).
Only 13 EU countries are compliant with the EU sow stall ban, despite it coming into force almost eight months ago, the UK’s National Pig Association (NPA) has revealed.
Belarus has temporarily restricted the import of cattle and small ruminants from Lithuania, due to outbreaks of the Schmallenberg virus, officials have reported.
Ukraine will start the export of meat products to the Palestinian market, with the first shipments to be sent in the coming months, according to a recently signed agreement between the two countries.
The horsemeat scandal continues to have an impact on consumer purchasing habits in Ireland, and has dented consumer confidence in the food industry, according to new research released by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI).
Experts have warned that Russia could lose its pork export industry as the epidemic of African swine fever (ASF) in Russia continues to gain momentum, spreading to new regions of the country.
African swine fever (ASF), which is continuing to spread across the territory of Russia and Belarus, may soon appear in the Baltic States, local veterinary services have predicted.
The European Commission (EC) has taken the unprecedented step of publishing position papers on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, revealing its stance on the contentious issue of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers.
Russia has temporarily banned imports of chilled pork and beef from Lithuania, claiming that meat exports from the country have violated the veterinary rules of the Customs Union.
The European Livestock and Meat Trades Union (UECBV) said this week it will actively back a new Europe-wide food sector initiative to reduce food wastage, stressing how it should be redirected into animal feed supply chains.
The Dutch government has been using diplomatic pressure to push for a European Union (EU) law ordering that halal and kosher meat is specially labelled when from livestock slaughtered without stunning.
Poland’s parliament has infuriated religious groups and the meat industry by rejecting a bill that would have legalised slaughter without stunning for kosher and halal meat.
The UK needs a more effective food safety regulator, which has the power to force retailers and processors to carry out DNA testing on meat, a group of MPs investigating the horsemeat scandal have concluded.
Europe’s meat and livestock industry association has attacked the recently agreed European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms as a “missed opportunity” to boost food supply security in the EU.
Major Finnish meat company Atria has signed a preliminary agreement to purchase meat slaughtering, meat cutting and meat procurement operations from another Finnish meat business.
Cyprus’ veterinary services are struggling with a major outbreak of Newcastle disease, which has ripped through broiler farms across the Greek internationally-recognised portion of the island.
Ireland’s agriculture minister has welcomed a decision by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Food Safety Committee to officially lift bans on exports of Irish beef and sheepmeat to the GCC region.
An outbreak of anthrax has been registered in Moldova, according to Vasile Sokhotskii, head of Moldova’s Department of Especially Dangerous Infections under the National Centre of Public Health.
Russian company Eurodon, the main production assets of which are located in the Rostov Oblast region in central Russia, will become the largest producer of turkey meat in Europe and the fourth-largest in the world by 2016, according to Eurodon CEO Vadim...
The European Parliament (EP) has sharply criticised Norway for imposing heavy duties on imports of beef and lamb from the European Union (EU), calling on the European Commission to assess possible retaliation.
