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Rosselkhoznadzor informs about the imposition of temporary restrictions on the import of porcine products from the Lugansk Oblast, Ukraine, from January 17, 2014.

The Rosselkhoznadzor has lifted, since December 10th 2013, the temporary restrictions applied to the shipments of finished products to three Spanish companies.

The pig herd has been decreasing since 2006 and stood at 147 million heads in 2012 (a reduction of 16 million heads or 10%, in seven years).

Recent food fraud cases, including the sale of horse meat as beef, should prompt the EU to review the functioning of the food production chain.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said Vietnam will in 2014, use 130,000 hectares of rice land to grow corn and cassava for animal feed production.

The livestock, agriculture and fishing exports rose by 10.3% during October in comparison with the same month of the previous year.

Temporary restrictions lifted from pigs and porcine products from a number of pig farms and meat-processing plants of the Brestskaya Oblast in the Republic of Belarus.

The official Canadian Pork Quality Standards (CPQS) for meat colour, fat colour and marbling (intramuscular fat) have now been released.

The Ministers of Agriculture of Brazil and France, Mr. Antonio Andrade and Mr. Guillaume Garot, signed last December 12th 2013, an agreement Memorandum with regard to the cooperation in the field of agriculture.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 188.1 points in December.

The National Institute of Animal Agriculture (NIAA) hosted a symposium titled “Bridging the Gap between Animal Health and Human Health."