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Last year, the Dutch pork exports reached a record figure of 944 million kg.

This change would remove some of the current restrictions on imports of ruminants, breeding swine and their products from Malta.

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

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.

In the pig sector, there are almost 300 approved applications for aid, and payments of €3,300 to each participant have commenced this week.

The $1,265,000 in funding will allow the CDPQ to focus on key issues for both the industry and MAPAQ like improving animal welfare.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We summarise the number of outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) together with the number of affected animals declared to the OIE