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Cargill launches new pork line

Cargill announced the launch of a new pork line of variety meat cuts under its brand, Rumba®. The new Rumba pork products include ears, hocks, jowls, kidneys, neckbones, split front feet, stomach, tails, fatback skins, hearts and livers.

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Maple Leaf Foods Responds to Parliamentary Sub-Committee Report "Beyond Listeriosis: Strengthening the Canadian Food Safety System"

Maple Leaf Foods today responded to the report of the Agriculture Sub-Committee investigating the listeriosis crisis of last year, which was caused by contaminated meat products originating from Maple Leaf's Bartor Road plant that claimed the lives of 22 Canadians

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Growing visitor numbers despite worldwide recession at VIV Russia 2009

The fourth edition of VIV Russia took place from 26-28 May 2009 at the Crocus Exhibition Center in Moscow. Despite the deep recession, in which both the Russian livestock sector as the Russian economy is embedded (-5%), VIV Russia 2009 welcomed 6,335 visitors which is an increase of 14% in comparison to 2008. The number of foreign visitors increased from 25% to 30%.

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More pig prices

We have added the pig prices for: Hungary, Chile, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea.

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IGA drives Aussie pork message

Over the next few weeks IGA supermarkets will start to use distinctive labels to help Australian consumers more clearly identify and buy Australian grown pork.

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Sara Lee Announces New Sliced Meat Manufacturing Facility

Sara Lee Corp. announced that it will open a new, state-of-the-art sliced meat manufacturing facility in Kansas City, which will become fully operational by 2011. The plant is expected to employ more than 250 people.

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Cherkizovo's products are awarded with 12 gold medals for quality

Cherkizovo OJSC, one of Russia’s leading integrated and diversified meat producers, is pleased to announce that it has recently won several gold awards for its high quality products.

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Improvac^® approval

EU Commission approves Pfizer Animal Health’s vaccine against boar taint

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Growth performance, carcass characteristics, meat quality, and tissue histology of growing pigs fed crude glycerin-supplemented diets

The use of glycerine in pig diets does not negatively affect pig performance or frequency of histological lesions in tissues associated with methanol metabolism

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EFSA publishes further opinion on smoke flavourings

In the fifth of a series of opinions on different smoke flavourings, EFSA’s CEF Panel has expressed safety concerns over the use of the flavouring product Scansmoke PB 1110.

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Russia - Meat production to Grow by 11.4% in the Ist Quarter

Russian meat production grew by 11.4% to 749 thousand tons in the first quarter of the current year compared to the same period in 2008, as Federal State Statistics Service reports.

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Japan - Normalized imports of pig meat from Chile

The Japanese government has authorized the entry of all pig meat from Chile from last Friday 17 April. This step assumes the overcoming of the case of contamination with dioxins that affected the swine industry in 2008. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

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EU - Nitrite as undesirable substances in animal feed - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain

Nitrite is formed naturally by the nitrogen cycle during the process of nitrogen fixation and it is subsequently converted to nitrate, a major nutrient assimilated by plants. Two main nitrite salt forms occur, namely sodium and potassium nitrite.

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USA - Organic growth slowing: new report

During the first part of this decade, the organic food and drinks market grew rapidly; sales in the U.S. and the nine largest European markets reached more then $40 billion in 2007. However, growth appears to have slowed in the market in 2008.

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Canada - More Ontario-grown food in schools, hospitals

Ontario government is investing $24 million over three years to develop the logistics to get more Ontario-grown food into the province's schools, hospitals, food service companies and other institutions. This will help Ontario farmers market and sell their products to more consumers.

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Murphy-Brown Announces PQA Plus Certification

Murphy-Brown LLC, the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc., announced today that it is on schedule to complete the certification and farm site assessment components of the Pork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA Plus) program for all its company-owned and contract grower-owned swine production farms in the United States before the end of 2009.