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FAO: Food Price Index remains unchanged in January

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 176 in January, down marginally from December. Quotations of all meat categories were generally stable, although a slight weakening in poultry and pig meat prices was evident.

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Sweden: important increase in meat consumption

Since the 1990s, meat consumption in Sweden has increased by 40%.

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EU and US to launch negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade Partnership

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will aim to go beyond the classic approach of removing tariffs and opening markets on investment, services and public procurement.

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Canada: Government unveils details of AgriMarketing and AgriCompetitiveness Programs

The AgriMarketing Program is designed to help industry improve its capacity to adopt assurance systems, such as food safety and traceability, to meet consumer and market demands.

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Poland: historical drop in its swine inventory

In December 2012, swine inventories totaled to 11.1 million head, a 15 percent drop in comparison to the same period of previous year.

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European Union: Processed Animal Proteins to be re-authorised in feed for fish

A Commission Regulation to re-authorise the use of processed animal proteins (PAPs) derived from non-ruminant farmed animals (i.e. mainly from pigs and poultry) in fish feed entered into force last week.

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Luís Capoulas Santos, Member of European Parliament, is the Ambassador to World Congress of Dry-Cured Ham

The World Congress of Dry-Cured Ham will take place for the first time in Portugal.

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United States: USMEF - An outlook for 2013

For 2013, USMEF forecasts volume and value of pork exports to increase 5 percent.

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France: the Autorité de la concurrence fines eight pork slaughterers and two professional bodies for several anticompetitive agreements

The main practice sanctioned was the concerted set up of the quantity of pigs bought by five major Breton slaughterers.

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Quality Equipment: New sales appointment

James Romp has joined Suffolk-based Quality Equipment as sales representative for the whole of the UK.

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WEDA: Feeding also has to be trained

Economically priced, easy, fast: WEDA’s new training station imparts handling of demand feeding station.

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Smithfield Foods to form joint venture with Kansas City Sausage Company

Smithfield Foods, Inc. today announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to form a 50/50 joint venture with Kansas City Sausage Company, LLC, including its sister company, Pine Ridge Farms, LLC.

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United States: pork exports set new records in 2012

Pork exports set both volume and value records last year, reaching 2.26 million mt – up a fraction from the record set in 2011 – valued at $6.3 billion, a 3.5 percent increase over the prior year’s record.

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New edema vaccine licensed in Switzerland

Ecoporc Shiga induces a high level of immunity against shigatoxin, produced by E coli bacteria which cause edema.

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TOPIGS works with three regions to accommodate growth

TOPIGS has reorganised its worldwide activities into three regions; Europe, the Americas and Asia/Pacific/Africa.

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European Union: Member States discuss mislabelling of meat products

The Commissioner recommends to introduce an EU-wide three month programme of control measures including random DNA testing of processed beef products in Member States.