Hungary’s poultry meat processor Gallicoop Pulykafeldolgozó Zrt has unveiled plans to invest some HUF 1.65 billion (€5.4m) to set up a new meat packaging plant.
Two Greek chefs have published a book in their native country chronicling the recent history of meat development and creating 40 outrageously creative meat products.
Consumers do value country of origin labelling (COOL) for meat products, say the authors of a recent study, but mostly for unprocessed meat that already has mandatory labelling in the EU.
When it comes to consumer goods, only the second hand car market is performing worse than the meat sector, according to new research published by the European Commission.
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has recommended public-private partnership to run the government slaughterhouses following a critical report into the country’s meat industry.
In light of the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) report last October identifying a correlation between meat consumption and cancer, a new report questions the health impacts of environmental contaminants in meat.
US ingredients manufacturer Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has said it plans to launch a soya product that can be used to boost protein and fibre content in meat products at IFFA.
Meat products samples, found in five Auchan outlets in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, contain excessive levels of E.coli, S.aureus, as well as tetracycline antibiotics, according to an investigation by Russian veterinary body Rosselkhoznadzor.
Russia’s meat industry could face a tsunami of bankruptcies across its poultry and red meat processing sectors within the next two years, the Meat Council of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has claimed.
The annual report of the European Union’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has revealed a 25% increase in notifications of food or feed health risks compared to the year before, with salmonella in poultry being a particularly noteworthy risk.
The Estonian meat industry achieved total revenues of €310.3 million (m), in 2014, with profits of around €16.8m - an increase of 55% on the previous year, according to the "Survey of Estonian meat industry sector in 2014", published recently...
Five more Chinese companies have filed requests with China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) to export meat products to Russia, as China’s meat sector sees growing export opportunities in the market.
The Russian parliament looks set to restrict retailers from selling more than 50% imported meat products, in a bid to further stimulate the development of the domestic meat industry.
The use of ‘single-focus’ labels on food products could be a small change that leads to a big difference in reducing the environmental impacts of livestock on water availability, say researchers.
Rosselkhoznadzor has not ruled out the possibility of banning the supply of animal products from Belarus, due to a number of veterinary legislation violations revealed in a number of inspections in recent months, said Sergei Dankvert, head of the Russian...
The trading of 229 tonnes of meat has been halted in Romania, after it was found the products were either adulterated or had already exceeded the use-by date.
New technical regulations, set to be implemented in the Customs Union, will prevent the production and processing of meat on small farms for subsequent sale on the market. Due to come into force on 1 May 2014 in Customs Union countries of Russia, Belarus...
New national origin labelling rules for pork, sheep, goat and poultry meat made in the European Union (EU) could reduce the trade in meat products between the 28 EU countries, EU senior meat industry figures have warned.
Pork meat producers stand to benefit from the comprehensive free trade agreements the European Union (EU) has signed with Georgia and Moldova at the end of November.
A new soya protein designed to bind water and fats into emulsified meat products, such as frankfurters and luncheon meat, has been launched for the African and Middle Eastern markets.
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.
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 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.
The Swedish National Food Agency (NFA) has announced that it has started testing meat products for undeclared pig DNA as part of its efforts to combat fraud in the food industry.
Russian veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has found horsemeat in sausages from two more Russian meat producers – Mortadel Company and the Klin meat processing plant.
Russia may impose temporary restrictions on meat imports from the European Union (EU) because of the horsemeat scandal, the country’s chief medical officer has claimed.
People living in rich countries should eat half as much meat as they usually do in order for people in poor countries to eat more without harming the environment, according to a new United Nations report.
Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark have voluntarily suspended exports of finished meat products to Russia pending an investigation into claims that exporters were using meat from third countries in these products.
The use of added fibre in processed meat products to reduce levels of fat could also have beneficial effect on product conservation leading to an increase in shelf life and long term quality, say researchers.
The European meat industry has criticised a decision by the European Parliament not to introduce food labelling that would display percentages of cuts in salt, fat and sugar.
Fibre obtained from the waste of olive mills may mimic the effects of fat, and improve the product’s cooking properties, says a new study with low-fat potential.
A new study claims a combination of potassium lactate and sodium diacetate can reduce salt intake from cooked meat products without affecting microbial stability.
The EU's food safety regulator has published an action plan to
prevent foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease from entering the bloc again,
calling for more controls on the import of animals, meat and meat
products.
A meat preserver, a gel-forming additive and an anti-microbial
agent face tougher European rules as Brussels adopts a proposal to
change the current food additive directive.
Concerns that uncooked meats and meat products on sale in the UK
could contain high levels of the potentially harmful chemical
1,3-dichloropropanol (1,3-DCP) have proven unfounded following an
investigation by the government-funded...
The recent announcement of a first confirmed case of BSE in the US
shows that concern about the safety of meat and meat products is
far from over, and that consumer demands for meat whose source is
traceable and quality unimpeachable...
