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Throughout 2010 the consumption of pork in Uruguay increased by 4,6%, fixing itself at 9 kg per inhabitant, although this is still below the record reached in 2007 (9,6 kg).

For the reference date 1 December 2010, Statistics Austria reports a total number of 3.134.000 pigs (-0,1% compared to 2009). A marginal increase was observed within the number of piglets and young pigs (+0.3% to 1 604 000 animals). The number of pigs for fattening purposes increased during the same period by 0.1% to 1 245 000 head while the number of pigs for breeding decreased by 3.1% to 285 000 animals.

South Korea will nearly double the volume of tariff-free pork it will allow into the country to 110,000 tonnes as a response to the FMD outbreak that has crippled domestic production.

In December the National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (SENASA) initiated the national vaccination of 1,4 million pigs against classic swine fever.

USDA report “Agricultural Projections to 2020” projects, that the price pressure on the livestock sector will lead to declines in production for both the red meat and poultry through 2012.

Throughout 2010 the exportation of pig meat from the EU reached 685.319 tons, which represents a 12.5% increase when compared with 2009 exports. A 182% increase of exports to Belarus stands out, as well as a 20% increase in exports to Japan. The main destinations of European pig meat are Russia with 30.1% of the total exported (809.148 tons), Hong Kong with 15,7% of the total, and Japan and china with 8,3% and 7,9% of the total.

The European Commission has suspended the emergency storage aid it has offered to pigmeat producers since late January.

Yesterday, at the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, the Member States adopted a statement on the dioxin incident which took place in Germany late 2010-early 2011.

Classical swine fever has been discovered in wild boars in a game husbandry "Znamenskoye", Ugransky, in Smolenskaya Oblast.

Member States endorsed yesterday a Commission proposal that shall harmonise the implementation of the zero tolerance policy on non-authorised genetically modified (GM) material in feed. The adopted measure defines the lowest level of GM presence (LLP) that is considered by the EU GMO Reference Laboratory when validating detection methods (it is set at 0.1%).

Croatia is a large pork importer. In 2010, pork imports reached $128 million (43,200 MT), mostly from the EU and Chile. Currently, the US is a minor supplier to the Croatian market. As an EU-candidate country, pork exports to Croatia must meet EU standards.

EU agriculture ministers threw their weight behind calls for mandatory origin labelling of pork, lamb and poultry, with milk and dairy products to follow later on.

Chicken meat consumption had grown 13 times in the Czech Republic to 24.8 kilograms per person per year in 2009, beef consumption, in contrast, has been falling in the long run and pork consumption stagnates, but still pork is the most popular kind of meat, Zdenek Kobes of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said.

A new outbreak of ASF was reported out of the permanently affected area (the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasian Federal District) in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. The outbreak was reported at 7:45 on 18 February 2011 in the city of Dzershinsk in the backyard of V.N. Mukhin.

Throughout 2010, the residents of the city of Lima consumed 4,062 kg of pork, registering a 60% increase in pork consumption with respect to 2000, when consumption was set at 2.526 kg per year per inhabitant, according to information from the Peruvian Minister of Agriculture (MINAG).

Total commercial meat production in Germany reached a record value of 8.0 million tonnes in 2010. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that is an increase of 302,000 tonnes or 3.9% on the previous year.