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The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has announced that Brussels has granted its request for state aid approval of a promotional scheme to support ‘quality foods’ covered by the Red Tractor logo.

Wageningen UR (University and Research Centre) and French research institute INRA (l’Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) are planning intensive future collaboration.

January through July exports of U.S. pork and beef are lagging behind last year’s pace amid a difficult global economic climate and lingering effects from the H1N1 influenza outbreak.

The veterinary authorities have sent a report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD).

An outbreak of blue ear disease (PRRS) was reported this week in Vietnam’s southern province of Bac Lie in the Mekong Delta.

Pigmeat prices have benefited from a combination of lower slaughterings in the first half of the year, less competitive imports and better than expected consumer demand.

A new consumer Web site was unveiled Sept. 9 at www.foodsafety.gov by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, co-chairs of the Obama Administration's Food Safety Working Group.

Although the pork price in China has risen for 13 weeks straight, it is not likely to trigger an inflation as it did previously, economists and industry analysts observed.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness – the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), where food industry officials must use to alert the FDA quickly, through an electronic portal when they find their products might sicken or kill people or animals.

During the first six months of 2009 the consumption of prepared meat products increased in the volume of sales (+8.5%), reaching 262,231 tonnes, as well as in value (2,151.7 million euros, 7.7% more than in 2008). (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Farmers face an imminent shortage of animal feed because a handful of countries are blocking the approval of genetically modified crops, the European Union’s farm chief warned on Monday.

The Council took note of the views expressed by the Netherlands delegation, supported by Bulgaria, the Czech republic, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Austria and United-Kingdom, regarding the need of new instruments to better control and inspect international transport of live animals, such as satellite navigation systems.

The Council today adopted a regulation modernising the EU rules for so-called animal by-products 2, following a first-reading agreement with the European Parliament.

During the first six months of 2009 Ukraine imported above 212,000 t of red meat which is below the forecast, said the Minister of Economy of Ukraine Mr. Bohdan Danylyshyn.

The Council took note of the request made by the French delegation and supported by other delegations to reintroduce export refunds in support of the pig meat sector.

A review of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is to be carried out by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.