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The goal is to make APHIS regulations more responsive to customer needs, easier to update in the future and more performance-based.

Pork production reached 3.60 million tonnes: 4.87% more than in 2013.

With the reopening of the South African market, Brazil expects to export pork amounting to USD7 million per year.

Last year 5,371,797 pigs were slaughtered, an increase of 3.76% over the previous year.

According to these data, some of them still provisional, the total number of pigs amounted to 137.2 million; data from Belgium and the UK —still not available—, have yet to be added.

Livestock production accounts for 54 percent of the value of the primary sector and generates 350,000 direct jobs and more than one million indirect jobs.

The ICA invested almost $6,300 million in inspection, surveillance and control activities to strengthen the livestock and agricultural species' health.

The joint venture will expand the agency’s world-leading scientific capability and strengthen its role in food safety research.

Based on the IRR, DA will be in charge of food safety regulations of primary and postharvest foods, while food safety regulations of processed and pre-packaged foods will be the look out of DOH.

The number of sows has also increased slightly (1%) over the same period last year, reaching 1,046,000 heads.

The National Animal Health and Agri-food Quality Service (SENASA) promotes, in municipalities of Buenos Aires Province, to reinforce surveillance against trichinosis.

The agricultural, fishing, food and forestry exports reached a value of €40,830 million, 3% higher than in 2013.

The number of pigs slaughtered in 2014 grew by 0.2% (112,600 heads), reaching 58.7 million animals.

SEGES is the merger of the former Knowledge Centre for Agriculture and the Danish Pig Research Centre, effective as per 1 January 2015.

Denmark’s two cooperative slaughterhouse companies have agreed to combine their activities in a joint company.

According to the ranking generated by the system, China ranked first, with a sum of 22,070 million dollars, of which 17,010 million come from its main component, soya bean.