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Azerbaijan Decided Not to Ban Poultry Meat Imports from Russia

  • 10 Jan 10:35

Azerbaijan does not import poultry meat and its products from the Kostroma region of Russia, where bird flu was detected, so there is no need to impose a ban on the imports of these products, said Yolchu Khanvali, head of the press service of the State Veterinary Control Service under the Agriculture Ministry of Azerbaijan. He toldTrend News AgencythatAzerbaijan imports poultry meat and its products from Turkey, Brazil and Ukraine, and eggs from Ukraine and Turkey. Azerbaijan imposed a temporary ban on the import of poultry meat and its products after bird flu was detected in March-April last year in Moscow and the surrounding areas. On 5 January 2018, Belarus imposed a. Read more...

Contaminated Eggs Found in 40 Countries

  • 7 Sep 09:15

Eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil have been discovered in 40 countries, including 24 of the European Union's 28 member states, German news agency DPA reported on Tuesday, without citing its sources. Millions of eggs have been pulled from European supermarket shelves, though some national regulators have voiced concern that many contaminated eggs have already entered the food chain, mainly through processed products such as biscuits, cakes and salads. EU agriculture ministers meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, are due to discuss the egg scandal on Tuesday, DPA said. DPA said a spokeswoman for the European Commission confirmed that the only EU member. Read more...

Fipronil-tainted Eggs Found in Taiwan

  • 25 Aug 09:58

Excessive levels of pesticide fipronil have been found in eggs produced at three farms in Taiwan, the island's agricultural authority said on Tuesday. Agricultural authorities tested samples from 45 farms around the island and found those from three farms in Changhua contaminated. The three farms are subject to strict controls that prohibit eggs from leaving their premises and eggs that have already been shipped will be removed from stores and destroyed, according to the agricultural bureau. The maximum residue of fipronil in eggs in Taiwan is 5 parts per billion. Fipronil is a pesticide effective on a large number of pests. It is considered slightly poisonous. Read more...

Ukraine Shows Interest Expansion of Presence in Chinese Ag Market

  • 17 Aug 12:21

Ukraine is interested in expanding the presence of its agricultural producers in the Chinese market, Ukraine's State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection said on Tuesday. In particular, this year, Ukraine plans to start exporting fish products and animal feed to China, the agency said in a statement following the 6th meeting of the subcommittee on agriculture cooperation of the Chinese-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission. "The protocols of sanitary and phytosanitary requirements for oilseed meals and sugar beet pulp exports have been already agreed and initialed," Volodymyr Lapa, head of the agency, said in the statement. By the end of. Read more...

Turkey Ranks as World's Eighth Largest Poultry Producer

  • 26 May 10:49

Turkey has become the world's eighth largest producer with about 2 million tons of poultry meat production in 2016.A total of 89.5 million tons of poultry meat (except for feet) were produced in the world by the end of 2016 according to data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations and Turkish Poultry Meat Producers and Breeders Association (BESD-BİR). The US is the largest poultry meat producer with 18.3 million tons, corresponding to 20.4 per cent of world poultry meat production, followed by Brazil with 13.6 million tons, China with 12.7 million tons, European Union with 11 million tons, India with 4.2 million tons, Russia with. Read more...