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During the last 10 years the consumption of pig meat in Ecuador has increased from 4.5 kg to the current level of 8.4 kg.

Due to change in the epidemic situation, it is impractical to further maintain the restrictions on import of animals and animal products from the countries where this disease is registered, as these conditions will make a negative economic impact on international trade, and are not able to slow down the disease spreading among people in Russia.

Last September 17, the authorities at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica signed a declaration that certified the absence of swine fever throughout the national territory. The disease had been announced in the country in 1994.

Canada's Agriculture Minister is hopeful the flow of Canadian pork into Russia will be fully restored following inspections of Canadian processing plants by Russian officials next month.

Institute for Food Safety and the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, both part of Wageningen UR, have developed a new, real-time test to detect antibiotics in the food chain.

Net investments of $83 billion a year must be made in agriculture in developing countries if there is to be enough food to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050, according to an FAO discussion paper.

Pig producers in Belgium continue to send out alarm signals as they feel they continue to be underpaid for their pigs by large retailers.

In the first half of the year, the declining performance of certain pork export markets was largely offset by gains in the two leading destinations for U.S. pork (Mexico by volume, Japan in terms of value). While Mexico and Japan continue to perform above their record pace of 2008, the gains achieved in these markets are no longer sufficient to overcome the decline in exports to China and Russia, which are at least partially the result of market access restrictions.

Between January and March the number of sacrificed pigs has fallen by 1%. Exportations of pig meat have also suffered a decrease in the first seven months of this year with a 5.9% fall compared to 2008, due in a large part to a fall in purchases from Russia and several other Asian countries.

Russia's veterinary authorities have reported a case of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

According to a financial analysis prepared by Danish Agriculture and Food Council the prospects are that pig producers will have decreasing costs during 2010.

The Norwegian veterinary authorities have informed the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of virus A/H1N1 in pigs.

USDA officially launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture last week with speeches from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology John Holdren.

Michigan egg, pork and poultry producers have reached a compromise agreement with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

The Philippines and the Taiwanese governments have signed an agreement to foster technical cooperation and work together to prevent and control the spread of livestock diseases.

U.S. Senate and House members have requested the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide assistance to U.S. pork producers to help them out of an economic crisis they’ve faced for two years.