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Manitoba's Chief Veterinary Officer says all pig movements on and off PED infected farms are being tracked in an effort to identify the source of infection and to ensure it does not spread to other farms.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2016 was 68.4 million head.

Global demand for pigmeat is continuously growing and the EU was able to benefit from increased import demand in China in particular.

The total pig census in Spain (Iberian pig included) as of November 2015 was 28,367,335 heads: an increase by approximately 5% with respect to the census in May 2015.

Every year, 700,000 people die in the world because of antimicrobial resistance. The European Union is responding to this growing problem by reducing the use of antibiotics.

Exports of meat, especially pork, from the EU to China have also increased substantially over the past few months, and Hogan says the trend is expected to continue.

During the conversations, Mr. Alexander Tkachev and Mr. Han Changfu talked about the possibility of China adopting the regionalisation principle for the shipments of Russian pork.

According to the last data published by the Eurostat regarding the prices of the market basket in the EU, the level of the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages in the most expensive EU member states doubled that seen in the cheapest ones.

Pigmeat, one of the EU agri-food flagship products accounting for around 5% of the total agri-food value.