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Parliament has voted several resolutions on country of origin labelling. However, the Commission has yet to make any such proposals, citing the costs of mandatory country of origin labelling to industry and predicting that consumers would not be willing to meet the additional costs.

Tönnies, Vion and Westfleisch are the three main abattoirs in Germany.

The arrangement allows FDA, CFIA and Health Canada to establish a framework for regulatory cooperation in areas that include scientific collaboration, inspection and outbreak response.

March pork exports were the largest in 11 months at 195,898 mt, up 3 percent year-over-year.

Japan too increased its intake in the first three months of the year by over 20%, compared with the same period last year.

From the total of 89,000 tonnes of pork that turned to private storage, last May 1st, 60,000 tonnes were released into the market.

Puerto Rico has accepted the International Certificate of Health (ICH) model proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil.

The US pork industry is teaming up with Alibaba to pitch more of its products to online shoppers in China.

Beijing will release 3.05 million kilograms from its frozen pork reserves onto the market to ease pork supply pressure and contain a price surge.

According to the information published by the Ministry of Agriculture of Spain in its foreign news gazette, the Central Americans are eating more and more pork.

The value of pigmeat fell by £186 million to £1,078 million. This fall was entirely due to the lower price in 2015 compared to 2014 as volumes rose by 3.3 %.

During the first trimester of 2016, a total of 164,900 tonnes have been exported, 77.8% more than during the first three months of 2015.

New customs rules come into force on Sunday 1 May that will make life simpler for businesses that trade in Europe and better protect consumers against illegal and counterfeit goods.