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Based on increasing consumer demand, stable feed prices and the modernization efforts of the Mexican industry, USDA forecasts an increase in pork production in 2019.

The 2017 full-year import figure already broke the 2 million metric ton barrier for the first time since records began in 1988, in 2018 this figure was exceeded.

The Government has launched a new ‘no deal’ notification system for businesses that import live animals from outside the EU.

The entry of the activists without permission, breaching the biosecurity measures, entails a health hazard for the animals.

The FAO, in collaboration with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), conducted an emergency response mission from 11 – 15 March 2019 in Viet Nam to enhance the country’s ability to respond to and prevent further spread of African Swine Fever (ASF).

After several months without the confirmation of new cases, ASF has reappeared in Moldova.

According to USDA, by the end of 2019, China's total swine inventory will be down and pork production will decrease.

The seizure was in an effort to battle the spread of African swine fever, a contagious, deadly virus which has killed more than a million pigs in China.

Further details of the preparations underway to minimise disruption of the supply of veterinary medicines in a no deal EU Exit.

A plan for the reduction of pathogens in the Colombian pig sector is being implemented with the support of Denmark. This technical cooperation project, that has being developing since 2015, wants to strengthen the knowledge on the food safety processes in pork production.

In a joint statement, on March 11th, the PRCs of Brittany and Pays de la Loire, and the NPPA announced that “they strongly support the project for the creation of a POA”.

Through an agreement signed by the President of the SENASA, Mr Ricardo Negri, and the General Manager of the Inter American Institute for Agricultural Cooperation, Mr Manuel Otero, in Buenos Aires.

Pork export volume came up just short of the record set in 2017 while value slipped 1 percent year-over-year.

With this political agreement, EU geographical indications can have improved protection at multilateral level.