About 75% of sausage products on Russia’s grocery shelves not only fail to meet quality standards, but could be dangerous to public health, according to a study by. Read more...
'Ultra-processed' foods make up more than half of all calories consumed in the US diet, and contribute nearly 90% of all added sugar intake, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open. Ultra-processed foods are formulations of several ingredients. Besides salt, sugar, oils and fats, they include substances not generally used in cooking, such as flavourings, emulsifiers, and other additives designed to mimic the qualities of 'real foods'. They include mass produced soft drinks; sweet or savoury packaged snacks; confectionery and desserts; packaged baked goods; chicken/fish nuggets and other reconstituted meat products; instant. Read more...
Tom Vilsack, agriculture secretary for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has led a trade mission of business delegates, including meat officials, to Chile and Peru with a view. Read more...
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. Read more...
According to Brazil's agriculture department (MAPA), negotiations with the US on mutual opening of markets for chilled and frozen beef are expected to be completed by the end of the first half of the year. Tatiana Palermo, International Relations Secretary at MAPA, saidthere are still negotiations on health underway to enable Brazil to export fresh beef to the United States. The secretary pointed out that Brazilian cattle produce a healthy, low-fat meat, meeting consumer trends in more selective markets in the world like the US. The negotiations between the two countries will result in the definition of an International Health Certificate model to. Read more...
The European pig slaughter market is picking up courage again. Above all, the German quotation’s sideward movement tipped the scales to stabilise the market situation. The quotations moved sideward altogether. The Dutch quotation was an exception, having hit the bottom already with its plus 2 cents. Austria, for example, rather bets on clearly improving prices with the so-called big players on the European market. France currently ranks first within the pricing structure of the five member countries most significant in pig keeping. Yet, this is not to be mistaken for careless production conditions. The French pig-keeping business still has to. Read more...
The volume of beef produced in Europe isexpected to jump by 2% in 2016, a recent report published by the European Commission shows. According to its Short Term Outlook, the majority of this increase will come from an increase in dairy throughput. The number of surplus dairy cows and heifers heading for slaughter is expected to rise due to the low-level milk price in the EU, it says. However, despite the predicted increase in beef production this year, it suggests that the volume of beef produced by Member States willstabilise in 2017. Beef Herd Numbers The European suckler herd showed signs of growth in 2015 on the year before, the latest EU. Read more...
The Canadian cattle herd has increased 0.3% in the past year to nearly12 million head.On January 1, Canada’s cattle herd totaled 11,960,000 head. The same time in 2015 saw the herd count at 11,920,000 cattle. This is the first increase in herd numbers since 2013. Canada’s cattle numbers are still 19.9% lower than the peak seen in January 2005. Heifer retention increased as producers in Canada rebuild their cowherd. This year 547,000 heifers were held back, a jump of 4% and the first increase in three years. Manitoba and British Columbia were the provinces that saw the largest increase in cattle. The far western province of British Columbia was up 1.8% in. Read more...
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. Read more...
Global pig prices have fallen steadily throughout 2015, following an exceptionally high year for prices in 2014. Based on the prices of the four major exporters (the EU, US, Canada and Brazil), the average export pork price finished 2015 at $2.38/kg. This is the lowest level for over six years, $0.57 lower than the same point last year and over a dollar less than the price peak recorded in June 2014. Several factors have combined to drive down value in the global pork market. The well documented supply glut following the Russian bans in 2014 has put downward pressure on EU, Canadian and US prices. The EU price has only just started to stabilise in January 2016, in. Read more...
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