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The data from the March MARM Panel of food consumption shows that the consumption of meat products in Spanish homes increased to 673.911 tons.

The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food of Mexico, Francisco Mayorga Castañeda communicated that Mexico will increment its meat exports to Russia, Vietnam and Singapore while they continue negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.

Food labels should feature mandatory nutritional information and guideline daily amounts, according to draft EU legislation as adopted by MEPs on Wednesday. However, they rejected a proposal for 'traffic light' values to highlight the salt, sugar and fat content of processed foods.

Pig producers now have an important new market as the Philippines has re-opened its market to the UK. The market had been closed since the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in 2007 and never formally re-opened.

Farm commodity prices have fallen from their record peaks of two years ago but are unlikely to drop back to their average levels of the past decade, according to the annual joint report from the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In 2009 a total of 384 mill. Kg of meat was produced in Finland. This is about 25% more than in 1995.

On May 28, 2010, Mexico published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) a new Reliable Importer Program for meat and poultry imports. This voluntary program will allow shipments of imported meat and poultry to forego sanitary inspection at the border, and instead be inspected at the destination, reducing logistical bottlenecks at border inspection points.

The Bulgarian Cabinet has decided to approve a strategy for the establishment of Bulgarian Food Safety Agency for as well as a Risk Assessment Centre under the administrative authority of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Bulgarian Food Safety Agency for will be subordinated to the Minister of Agriculture and Food with budgetary credits and will have controlling functions.

In the course of the inspection of Brazilian meat processing plants, which was carried out by the Rosselkhoznadzor specialists in April 2010, it was found out that most Brazilian plants that used to export their products to Russia, do not fulfill veterinary-sanitary norms and requirements.

On an annual basis, fresh and frozen pork is up 3.1% while shoulder roasting joints are up 40% and loin roasting joints are up 11.7%.

More than half of the total meat consumption consists of pig meat products.

The average Belgian bought 32.1 kg of fresh meat in 2009. That is a decline of 500 g compared to the previous year.

The amount of pork products exported from Canada is expected to decline come calendar year 2011.

For every euro spent on alimentation, 2.3 cents are spent on ecological products, as is shown by data from the “biomonitor”, corresponding to 2009, that have just been published. The Dutch consumer spent a total of € 646.4 million last year on ecological products, while in 2008 the total was € 583 million.