The European Commission has approved the use of ethyl lauroyl arginate (E-243) as a preservative in most heat-treated meat products in the 28-country European Union (EU). But the Commission has retained a ban on its use in emulsified sausages, smoked...
Danish Crown’s decision to invest in facilities outside Denmark risks straining relations with the government in Copenhagen as the company lobbies for state measures to reduce operating costs at local plants.
Since the beginning of 2014, Russia has reduced imports of meat by 27.1%, excluding imports from Belarus and Kazakhstan, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture has reported, citing data from the Federal Customs Service.
Danish companies are gearing up to export sausages, salami and other heat-treated pork products to China after the two countries struck a bilateral agreement on access to Chinese markets.
Pig producers, processors and veterinarians from around the world met at a symposium in Berlin named ‘Create Winning Relationships Across the Pork Value Chain’, with piglet castration a key topic.
A new environmental report has suggested that both greenhouse gases and nitrogen emissions could be cut by up to 40%, if European consumers halved their meat consumption.
The Danish government is considering breaking ranks with the European Union (EU) and striking a bilateral trade deal with Russia to protect its pork exports. These have been hit while Russia blocks EU pigmeat exports over a handful of African swine fever...
A shortage of pork, caused by recent outbreaks of the porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDv) virus, will be a key concern for many countries in the coming months, according to a new report by Rabobank.
Concerns are growing among Danish pork meat producers that a local boycott of Danish fresh pork in Sweden could spread to other supermarket chains and independent traders. The boycott has so far been limited to one ICA supermarket and two private traders...
New technical regulations on the safety of meat and meat products will come into force across Russia and the Customs Union, from 1 May 2014, and look set to bring major changes to the structure of local meat businesses.
Meat processing grant Danish Crown has warned meat industry unions that the pressure to pay higher wages in Denmark at its Danish meat processing plants means most future fixed capital plant expansion and capacity investments will take place outside its...
Amid the continuing political crisis, Ukraine has reported a sharp rise of about 40% in the price of pork during the past two weeks. On the first week in April the retail price of pork was about UAH45 (US$3.78) per kg, while this week it rose to UAH59-UAH65...
The Russian government has shrugged off the risk posed by possible economic sanctions from the US and European Union (EU) over the Ukraine crisis, but admitted that a poultry export expansion plan has been shelved.
The China representative of France pigmeat association INAPORC has welcomed an agreement between the Chinese and French governments that should enable French processed pigmeat products to be exported to China.
The Canadian pork industry could have stood to lose CA$1.7bn annually, over the next 15 years, had the decision not been made to move away from the use of gestation crates, animal welfare group Humane Society International (HSI) Canada has claimed.
Polish Minister of Agriculture Marek Sawicki has announced plans by Poland to launch pork exports to China in a bid to compensate for the losses incurred by Russia’s decision to ban imports of Polish pork, which started on 7 April.
International meat producers and exporters are in attendance at Asia’s largest food and hotel exhibition, Food and Hotel Asia (FHA) 2014, which got under way today in Singapore.
The European Union (EU) has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Russia’s import ban on pigs and pigmeat sourced from across the EU, following four cases of African Swine Fever (ASF) detected in Lithuania and Poland.
As of yesterday (Monday 7 April) Russia has effectively extended its African Swine Fever (ASF)-justified ban to include processed pork meat products from Poland and Lithuania, two Polish members of the European Parliament (MEP) have revealed.
Average Swiss consumers ate almost 52kg of meat in 2013, up 0.4% from what they consumed in 2012, according to Proviande, the trade association of Swiss meat producers.
Russian veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has announced that, from 7 April 2014, the country is to impose temporary restrictions on the import of finished pork products from Lithuania and Poland.
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) has published a damning report on ‘Risks in the meat supply chain’, claiming the industry has "numerous deficiencies" when it comes to food hygiene.
Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea has announced plans by China to launch imports of sheep meat from Romania following last year’s signing of two agreements to export Romanian pork and cattle to the Chinese market.
Since the start of 2014, Russia has reduced meat imports by 27.1% to 159,100t on a year-on-year comparison, excluding trade with Belarus and Kazakhstan, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture has reported, citing data from the Federal Customs Service.
European Union (EU) member states yesterday (19 March) approved detailed restrictions on the handling of pigs and pigmeat in the border areas of Poland and Lithuania to try and prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF).
Russian veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor plans to reduce the number of cold storages in European Union (EU) countries approved to export meat products to Russia, according to Vasily Lavrovskiy, head of Rosselkhoznadzor’s department on international...
The Russian meat industry may be seriously affected if the US and the European Union (EU) decide to impose trade sanctions against the country due to the situation in Crimea, Russian experts suggest.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has ruled out hunting or trapping as effective measures to prevent the introduction or spread of African swine fever (ASF) through wild boar.
A European Union (EU) research project is to develop a new system of controlling the salting stage during dry-cured ham processing, aiming to reduce salt content.
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.
The planned trade agreement between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) could be "smaller" and "more modest" than hoped due to a number of intractable issues – one American lobbyist warned this week.
The Swedish National Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket) has identified cold meats as the primary source for a recent outbreak of listeria in Sweden that has been connected to the deaths of up to 14 people since autumn 2013.
A joint venture set up by Polish and Russian investors is planning to open a new pig farm in Krasnodar Krai, in the south of Russia, said Marek Ociepka, head of the Moscow-based WPHI, the foreign trade and investment arm of Poland’s Foreign Ministry.
Meat imports into the UK market during 2013 rose, according to figures from Welsh meat bosses, although those increases are unlikely to be repeated during 2014.
Since the beginning of the year, Russian pork and beef prices have risen by nearly 25%, according to a recent report by the Specialized Center of Accounting in Agribusiness, part of Russia’s Agriculture Ministry.
Veterinary services in the Customs Union and the European Union (EU) plan to develop a coordinated approach to combat the spread of African swine fever (ASF), according to a statement from Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov.
European Union (EU) meat demand and production are expected to recover this year, after two years of decline in EU pork and beef supplies, the European Commission predicted recently.
Ukraine’s revolution and subsequent Russian intervention might have disrupted much of its economy and politics, but the country’s meat and livestock sector has so far emerged unscathed.
Russia has lifted an official ban on US pork, but new measures have been imposed which may limit opportunities to supply. With tensions between the two countries continuing to grow, experts warned the future of pork supply remains unclear.
Danish Crown has taken full ownership of Polish processed meat producer Sokolów, after acquiring the remaining 50% of its shares for around DKK1.3bn (€180m).
