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The modern large-scale pig sector is growing rapidly, due to rising income, urbanization, and the proliferation of supermarkets. However, it remains small: about 5% of pig production comes from growers with more than 100 pigs.

U.S. meat exports to Chile increased over 500% January to July 2010, in comparison with the same period in 2009. While the U.S. is far from being the main supplier of meat in Chile; mainly due to the distance and strong regional competitors in the area, such us Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, U.S. meat producers are slowly capturing market share.

At the European Union pigmeat price forecasting group in Brussels, the NPA's Barney Kay asked for each member country to indicate its level of preparedness for the 2013 partial stalls ban.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing this letter to clarify to animal food ingredient suppliers, animal food manufacturers, and the public that when a food substance is marketed as Generally Recognized As Safe, or GRAS, it does not necessarily mean that FDA has reviewed or concurred with the regulatory status of the substance.

The European Commission has today announced that it will propose a temporary suspension of animal cloning for food production in the EU. The Commission also plans to suspend temporarily the use of cloned farm animals and the marketing of food from clones. All temporary measures will be reviewed after five years. The establishment of a traceability system for imports of reproductive materials for clones, such as semen and embryos of clones is also envisaged. The system will allow farmers and industry to set up database with the animals that would emerge from these reproductive materials.

Manila may start renegotiating with Singapore on pork trade that was stalled as the two sides wait for results of the Ebola Reston antigen test.

The Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board today unanimously voted to create new euthanasia livestock care standards--the first such set of standards created in the state's history. Proposed euthanasia rules will be filed with the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR) to begin the rule making process.

Foodborne illness outbreaks totaled 1,097 and caused 21,244 illnesses and 18 deaths in 2007, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report summarizing the epidemiological data for reported foodborne outbreaks in 2007 – the most recent year available.

Canada´s pork sector continues to struggle, with production having shrunk to its lowest levels since 2000/01. This has largely resulted from an industry goal of cutting production by 18% by 2014, with the government paying farmers to cease raising hogs. Exports have particularly suffered in the wake of the rising Canadian dollar and recent restrictions on pork imports into the US. Consequently, many pig farmers have gone out of business.

Global pigmeat sector cannot regard 2009 as a successful year with prices plummeting in parallel to the fall of feed costs after the hikes of 2007-08 and due to the strong drop in global demand.

More than 20 national food and agriculture organizations yesterday announced the formation of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA). The alliance will work to enhance U.S. consumer trust in the modern food production system that provides an abundance of affordable, safe food.

According to information published by Abiceps, so far this year, pork meat export sales have suffered an 8,15% decline in volume, going from 448.731 tons in the first nine months of 2009 to 412.168 tons in the same period of this year.

According to the figures made public by the Agricultural Economic Institute (LEI), antibiotics use in the intensive livestock industry in the Netherlands has come down in 2009.

In a final report sent to the OIE, Botswana reports that the foot and mouth disease event having started in July 2010 is closed.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved higher blending rates for ethanol in gasoline for 2007 and newer vehicles, allowing mixtures with up to 15% of the corn-based fuel at the pump. The current maximum ethanol blend rate is 10%; a mid-level blend rate increase of 12% had been discussed in recent months.

The results of a survey conducted in June this year indicated that nearly 70% of producers already keep pregnant sows in group systems, which is in line with the requirements of the EU legislation due in 2013.