Page 10 of articles about traceability

The swine regulation, approved by Alberta's cabinet this week, will mean all of the province's 2.5 million pigs must come with travel documents as they're moved from farms to abattoirs.

Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved the development of a new food security information system.

Up until 1st october, the electronic recording of pig movements has been written into legislation.

A study assessing the impact of traceability and animal identification programs on the international market for red meat has been released by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

The Council approved a compromise text aimed at ensuring that food labels carry essential information in a clear and legible way following a second-reading agreement with the European Parliament. This means that the new regulation is now adopted.

The OJEU has published, COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) Nº 931/2011 of 19 September 2011 on the traceability requirements set by Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council for food of animal origin

A £2 million "Make the Promise" advertising campaign for Red Tractor pork is launched. It will run for 18 months.

As of July 18th, marking with the letter "F" will identify pig carcasses as born, raised, and slaughtered in France.

Through the Traceability Foundations Initiative, the governments of Canada and Ontario will support projects led by the agri-food industry to share information, enhance industry competitiveness and improve the speed in which Ontario responds in the event of a food product recall.

Korea aims to introduce a tracking system for all pork sold on the local market starting in 2014 to make it easier to recall substandard products, the government said yesterday.

The Irish Farmers’ Association has today (Wed) announced a world first ‘DNA certified’ Programme for pigmeat that will expose misleading labelling and provide a guaranteed assurance for producers and consumers on the origin of pigmeat.

The Government of Canada is once again supporting the livestock industry as they develop a national traceability system. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced an investment today of more than $3.7 million to strengthen the Canadian Pork Council’s national swine traceability system, bringing the total investment for this initiative up to $7 million.

South Korea’s Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that it will establish a “nationwide hog farm management system” that will enable a comprehensive farm-to-slaughter management of hogs to improve the farming environment and prevent swine fever.

As part of a national swine tracing system, the Canadian Pork council has begun to hand out traceability ear tags.

The Canadian Pork Council plans to focus on Canada's swine breeding herds as it moves to make national-level traceability ear tags available for hog producers' use.