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If only one of the parents is the named breed, then the product must be clearly labelled as being from a cross-breed. The advice comes from Lacors - the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services. This means that if a piece of meat is, for instance, labelled ‘Gloucestershire Old Spot’ or ‘Berkshire’ consumers will know they are buying pork from pure-bred animals.

At the end of November, the number of exported live pigs was 22% lower than for the same period of the previous year. (Original in Dutch. Read Google translation here).

Last week the Mexican Minister of Agriculture, Alberto Cárdenas, officially stated that there is no CSF in Mexico. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The European Commission has adopted a temporary exceptional support measure for the pigmeat and beef market in form of a disposal scheme in Ireland.

Figures published by Defra reveal farm incomes in the UK for 2008 have risen showing that total income from farming per head rose by 42 per cent, in real terms to £18,185.

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture is working to open the possibility of exporting Santa Catarina porcine and bovine meats to the EU. (Original in Portuguese. Read Google translation here).

Business has been suspended with nine U.S. pork operations by Russia due to "clerical errors" in export certificates, according to Dow-Jones.

The UK’s top grocery retailers, brands and manufacturers have committed to an industry-wide food waste reduction objective for the first time. It is hoped that the strategy, delivered under the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAPs) Love Food Hate Waste campaign, will reduce the amount of food waste thrown away by 155,000 tonnes by 2010, against a 2008 baseline.

Aleksey Gordeev, the Minister of the Russian Federation, suggests passing to a three-year regime of import quota allocation for all meat types, the press-service of Minselkhoz reports. He considers that planning of meat import quota allocation procedure “shall be effected for a three-year period (2010-2012)”.

Mexico will continue its World Trade Organization complaint against U.S. rules to make country-of-origin labels obligatory on meat, Agriculture Minister Alberto Cardenas said on Thursday.

Four more people in the Philippines have been discovered infected by the Ebola-Reston virus and the possibility of pig-to-human transmission cannot be dismissed, the government said Friday.

In the wake of a finding indicating human exposure to the Ebola Reston virus (ERV) in the country, health authorities cautioned consumers to make sure the pork they eat is thoroughly cooked.

U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., introduced legislation Wednesday to prevent the importation of livestock from Argentina until the United States Department of Agriculture can certify that Argentina is free of Foot and Mouth Disease.

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in August 2007 drove the Korean government to ban all pork products from the United Kingdom. According to the Agriculture Ministry, the British government had requested for a resumption of its meat imports, following its classification as a "clean" nation by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency expects final recommendations for regulatory changes that will reduce the risk of food becoming contaminated by listeria by the end of March.

The EU proposal focuses on ensuring there is a level playing field with respect to welfare standards for animals killed in a slaughterhouse, on a farm or for disease management purposes and that they are spared avoidable suffering. The proposal covers all animals including poultry and fish, but excludes reptiles and amphibians.