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The National Animal Health and Agri-food Quality Service (SENASA) promotes, in municipalities of Buenos Aires Province, to reinforce surveillance against trichinosis.

Denmark’s two cooperative slaughterhouse companies have agreed to combine their activities in a joint company.

The number of pigs slaughtered in 2014 grew by 0.2% (112,600 heads), reaching 58.7 million animals.

A Commission move to introduce Private Storage Aid for pigmeat in order to ease pressure on  the EU pigmeat market has been voted on by Member States in the [Management] Committee.

According to the ranking generated by the system, China ranked first, with a sum of 22,070 million dollars, of which 17,010 million come from its main component, soya bean.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) reached a tentative contract last Friday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced the availability of more than $160 million in funding for research, education, and extension projects.

European Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, will propose the opening of a measure of private storage for pork products.

With a production of 5.5 million tonnes, corresponding to 25% of the EU total, Germany was in 2013 the main producer of pig meat in the EU, followed by Spain (3.4 mn t or 16%).

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced investments of nearly $2 million to strengthen traceability and biosecurity in Canada’s pork industry.

Export value for both U.S. beef and pork reached new heights in 2014, posting double-digit gains over the previous year’s totals.

The document reflects the harmonization of the terminology used for wholesale cuts of meat between Canada and the United States (U.S).

The list of Spanish establishments approved to export beef and/or pork products to the United States has been expanded.

The resolution urges the Commission to follow up its 2013 report with legislative proposals to make it mandatory to state the country of origin of meat used in processed foods.