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Japan is the twelfth destination of the Spanish pork exports, with more than 28,000 tons, and it is placed in the eighth place in terms of the value.

The French Federation of Pork Products Industries (FICT) has shown its disagreement with respect to the compulsory labelling indicating the origin of the pig meat.

The Spanish exports of cured hams and shoulders ended year 2012 with an increase by 8.7% with respect to year 2011.

In 2012 the fresh meat consumption fell by 1.8%, whilst the consumption of cold cuts rised by 2.5%.

Hams will be liberalised after 5 years. Exports of wines & spirits, pork products and olive oil will also benefit from preferential access.

Uruguay approved the release of the importation of meat products and pork byproducts from 13 Brazilian federal states.

Pork exports in the first 10 months of 2012 were 5% higher on the year at 127,100 tonnes.

This regulation, that will come into force next January 3rd 2013, gathers in a single legal document the different European quality regimes.

Singapore will introduce a new register for regionally-specific and recognised foodstuffs, wines and spirits, known as Geographical Indications.

The Spanish exportations of cured hams and shoulders have risen an 8.12% with respect to year 2011.

The aim is that within 2 years, retail development and sale of these products can be offered with 10% less salt and less than 5% fat.

Its role will be to analyze the evolution of pig production in Argentina in order to evaluate the permanence of the various categories of cured ham.

2012 Italian pork meat production is expected to stagnate at 1.6 MMT following the trend in slaughtering.

The SNIV-SNCP analyzes the status of the sale of VPF brand pork (French pork). According to the data, only 70% of the brands' ham carries the logo whereas 3 months ago it was 85%.

2010 was a record year for exportation of the PDO product, "Prosciutto di Parma". With an increase of 9,5%, 2.256.000 hams were exported to over 80 different countries. Foreign markets currently represent 24% of Parma ham production.

According to information from the Spanish “Consorcio del jamón Serrano”, developed based on statistics from the National Tax Administration, throughout 2010 Spanish exports of cured ham grew by 4,8 percent in volume, reaching 22.680 tons, and by 6,8 percent in value, reaching 196 million Euros.