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According to the FAO meat price index, global pig meat prices fell in August due while bovine, ovine, and poultry meat rose.

The lifting of the Japanese embargo is particularly significant as Japan represents an important market for the Belgian pork sector.

The foreign demand for Brazilian soybean meal has heated up again.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has just published guidance for preventing transmission of COVID-19 within food businesses that updates the interim guideline issued in April 2020.

USDA predicts growth for Brazil's pig and pork production in 2021 and 2022.

The 21/22 season will have a record sowing of 8.25 million hectares.

U.S. pork exports closed the first half of the year on a strong note, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Two farms have reported outbreaks of ASF so far in 2021 affecting a total of 13,124 susceptible animals.

USDA predicts that pork production in China will decrease in 2022 due to low inventories and a smaller sow herd.

According to Rabobank's quarterly report, redistribution of pork trade could place downward pressure on pork prices in exporting regions.

A report on the implementation and impact of mandatory indication of the country of origin for certain meats has been published.

While poultry, ovine, and bovine meat prices increased, global pork prices fell in July.

So far three ASF outbreaks on pig farms have been reported in 2021.

This investment will ultimately help prevent and minimize the negative impacts of COVID-19 and other emerging and zoonotic diseases on animal health, the economy, public health, and food security.

In mid-September, the European Parliament is due to vote on a ban on the use in animals of antibiotics of importance in humans.

OIE data show positive samples were found in backyard farms in April.

European Commission allows the use of certain animal proteins to feed non-ruminant farmed animals such as pigs and poultry.

A total of 22 organizations from 18 Latin American countries have formed a continent-wide committee to prevent the entry of African swine fever into the region.

The authorities are going to intervene in the backyard farms in these provinces to prevent further spread of the disease.

Following the confirmation of African swine fever (ASF) positive pigs in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Colombia have taken extreme sanitary measures to prevent the introduction of this serious disease.

The number of organic pigs increased by 36% between 2010 and 2020 and represents just under 1% of the total pig inventory.

Since last May, Chinese imports of pork and offal have been below the values of the same month of the previous year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed African swine fever (ASF) in samples collected from pigs in the Dominican Republic through an existing cooperative surveillance program.