Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has warned traders to suspend imports of poultry meat from the Swedish county Skåne following an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5 avian influenza.
Finnish meat company Atria has reported strong sales results for 2017, achieved through corporate acquisitions and plans to develop organically through its ‘Healthy Growth’ strategy.
An advocacy group has urged McDonald’s to set a “concrete timeline” for phasing out antibiotics in its beef and pork, amid concerns that routine overuse creates life-threatening, drug-resistant superbugs.
Sheep farmers in Wales face “an extremely difficult future” after Brexit, if the UK government fails to negotiate a trade deal that secures tariff-free access to key European Union (EU) export markets, a leading trade body has warned.
GlobalMeatNews is pleased to welcome exciting US researcher Ai-Ping Hu as our latest speaker for the Wednesday 7 February webinar: Automate, Integrate, Accelerate.
Rolling out holistic, end-to-end automation solutions and optimising them for maximum efficiency will be explored in our webinar on Wednesday 7 February.
A detailed review of whether the European Union’s (EU) comprehensive animal welfare efforts are proving effective is to be staged by the EU’s financial watchdog, the Court of Auditors, this year.
By Eugene Vorotnikov, in Voronezh, Russia; and Keith Nuthall
The Russian government will fight an application by the European Union (EU) at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for permission to impose retaliatory trade sanctions worth €1.39 billion over Moscow’s ban on EU pork and pigs.
Has Asia lost its appetite for pork? Trade statistics for September show EU export sales to China, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea have declined year-on-year.
