The meat industry is a fast paced sector and its vital to stay up-to-date on the latest developments within the sector, be they processor expansion or the changing market conditions around the globe.
17-May-2013 - An Australian animal welfare group has called for the heads of the country’s political parties to give a personal guarantee there will be no more cruelty in the live export trade.
16-May-2013 - A third report carried out by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has shown that bacteria in meat continues to show resistance to antimicrobials.
16-May-2013 - An Australian government investigation into alleged abuse of exported sheep in Kuwait has concluded that live export rules had been breached.
16-May-2013 - The ex-director of a meat processor caught up in the European horsemeat scandal has claimed that the fraud was carried out by a big organisation, which specifically targeted burger plants and ready meal manufacturers.
16-May-2013 - The government of China’s largest city, Shanghai, is building a blacklist of fraudulent food traders targeted for law enforcement, as a series of meat frauds have emerged nationwide.
15-May-2013 - Outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu have been reported on farms in Mexico and Tibet.
15-May-2013 - UK animal welfare campaigners are stepping up a campaign in a bid to monitor the live exports of animals to Europe.
15-May-2013 - Russia will double the value of its of meat exports by 2017, according to a new report from analytical agency Restko.
15-May-2013 - China’s government has announced a financial support plan to help prop up the poultry industry in the wake of the H7N9 bird flu crisis.
14-May-2013 - Sri Lanka has banned meat imports from countries which have reported bird flu, according to local press reports.
14-May-2013 - The US chicken industry has hit back at a study claiming that public health is being put at risk by arsenic-based drugs in poultry production.
14-May-2013 - Canada’s government has opened a new biomass boiler plant in Quebec to help cattle farmers and processors in the region reduce carcase disposal and handling costs.
14-May-2013 - Russia has significantly increased poultry imports so far this year, according to the latest data from the Federal Customs Service (FCS).
13-May-2013 - International meat trade fair IFFA, held last week in Frankfurt, saw an increase of 2.5% in visitors to 60,000 on 2010 figures.
13-May-2013 - Technology from the medical arena is being adapted for the meat sector by the Danish Meat Research Insitute.
13-May-2013 - Adapting technology used in the poultry sector could help save costs and labour in the pork processing market, according to an equipment manufacturer.
13-May-2013 - Globalmeatnews.com spoke to IFFA 2013 director of brand management, Ina Stoltze, about this year's show and what it said about the health of the global meat industry, as well as plans for IFFA 2016.
13-May-2013 - A global player in the packaging sector said it was bucking the general trend and reporting solid growth and was now expanding operations out of its traditional heartland, its leaders informed visitors to the IFFA trade fair in Frankfurt.
13-May-2013 - Perten Instruments is moving more heavily into the meat arena with a range of products for NIR analysis of meat products.
13-May-2013 - Australia recorded record red meat exports to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) last month, according to the latest figures from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).
13-May-2013 - The horsemeat scandal has been described as an irritation to German consumers by the Federation of German Meat Industry (BVDF).
13-May-2013 - The Australian RSPCA has renewed calls to ban the live export trade following allegations of cruelty to Australian livestock in Egpyt and Malaysia.
13-May-2013 - McDonald’s will offer members of the public a peek inside its supply chain to see how its meals are made, as a response to curiosity about traceability by its consumers.
10-May-2013 - Australia has been hit by yet another live export scandal after a welfare group released footage allegedly showing cruel treatment of Australian goats and cattle in Malaysia.
10-May-2013 - Canada has signed a deal with Turkey giving exporters of sheep and goat genetics access to the Turkish market.
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