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Pork and pork products must be derived from lots of hogs that have negative test results for ractopamine.

The Mexican company Sigma and the Chinese company WH Group (formerly Shuanghui) will control 98.31% of the stockholders' equity of Campofrio.

As of July 1 the AMS report will included barrows and gilts falling in the 240-320 pound range.

Of the 3 205 original notifications transmitted in RASFF in 2013, the vast majority (2 710, 84.6%) concerned food, 272 concerned feed (8.5%) and 223 notifications concerned food contact materials (6.9%).

Meat prices averaged 189.1 points in May, nearly unchanged from April.

This agreement will enter into force on 17 June. It will allow to resume the export of pork and deboned beef to the Ukrainian market.

The abattoir has a slaughtering capacity of 3,800 cattle heads and 5,600 pigs per month.

Mexico exported 86,294 tonnes of pig meat in 2013.

Signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and AQSIQ on cooperation in the area of health quality and health safety of meat.

According to the USDA Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade repor, that Fiscal Year 2014 agricultural exports will reach $149.5 billion, an estimated $6.9 billion higher than previous estimates.

More efforts will be made to improve food safety in meat products and punish those who illegally purchase, produce or sell sick or dead animals.

The new cluster, led by Swine Innovation Porc, will help industry experts, scientists and academics to increase market share and competitiveness by enhancing the nutritional value of pork products.

Pig meat production has grown by 164% in the last 10 years.

Pig meat exports have reached 654,067 tonnes during the first trimester of this year, and this entails a decrease by 9.1% with respect to the same period in 2013.

During last April, the pig meat exports increased by 19.66% in terms of volume and by 19.74% in terms of value with respect to April 2013.

Pork exports were just under 18,200 tonnes for March, 13% up on the same month last year and the highest monthly figure since 1998.