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The Korean government says it halted all imports of pork and poultry from Germany on Saturday after tests results showed high levels of cancer causing dioxin in animal feed. Meanwhile, Russia has announced it is tightening restrictions on meats imported from Germany.

The incident started with the mixing of fatty acids, meant to be used for technical purposes (such as paper processing), with vegetable feed fat, which is used in the production of compound feed for animals. The fatty acids were contaminated with dioxins, and that is how the dioxins ended up in compound feed. The actual source of the dioxin contamination –i.e. why dioxins were present in the fatty acids– remains unknown for the time being.

Pork producers in the Philippines as considering the possibility of putting up rendering plants that can produce meat and bone meal (MBM), an ingredient used in manufacturing animal feeds.

The state of Lower Saxony said it would temporarily quarantine 1,000 farms with egg hens, pigs and turkeys until the Agricultural Ministry could ensure their products were safe for consumption.

This year's European Union cereals harvest was 277m tonnes, a 12m tonne decrease on last year, according to estimates by European farmers union Copa-Cogeca.

During the recent years, COFCO, China's state-owned foodstuffs import and export holding companies, is dedicated to establishing a large comprehensive corporation by investing pig industry. Its reared pigs have arrived more than 40 million, with the consumed feed coming up to 12 million tons. It stated last year that slaughtering pigs in the future will be 30 million per year, which meant a yearly increase of 9 million tons of feed consumption.

The government plans to use the duty income charged on imported soybean meal to lower the production cost of chicken, pork and eggs so it can cut the retail prices on these items for consumers.The strategy is part of a broader policy to cut the price of some foods and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to reduce the cost of living.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) asked the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances Used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) to produce a statement on the assessment of safety and efficacy of feed additives when used in water.

Manitoba livestock producers facing feed shortages this winter following an extremely wet 2010 growing season will receive feed and transportation assistance from the Governments of Canada and Manitoba. The investment was announced today by the federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers.

On 7 December 2010 the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the French Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses) and the Food Institute of the Danish Tekniske Universitet (DTU) signed a cooperation agreement. The objective of the German-French-Danish cooperation is to render the joint activities in the field of food safety, also on the European level, even more effective and efficient than in the past.