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Figures published by Defra reveal farm incomes in the UK for 2008 have risen showing that total income from farming per head rose by 42 per cent, in real terms to £18,185.

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture is working to open the possibility of exporting Santa Catarina porcine and bovine meats to the EU. (Original in Portuguese. Read Google translation here).

Business has been suspended with nine U.S. pork operations by Russia due to "clerical errors" in export certificates, according to Dow-Jones.

The UK’s top grocery retailers, brands and manufacturers have committed to an industry-wide food waste reduction objective for the first time. It is hoped that the strategy, delivered under the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAPs) Love Food Hate Waste campaign, will reduce the amount of food waste thrown away by 155,000 tonnes by 2010, against a 2008 baseline.

Aleksey Gordeev, the Minister of the Russian Federation, suggests passing to a three-year regime of import quota allocation for all meat types, the press-service of Minselkhoz reports. He considers that planning of meat import quota allocation procedure “shall be effected for a three-year period (2010-2012)”.

Mexico will continue its World Trade Organization complaint against U.S. rules to make country-of-origin labels obligatory on meat, Agriculture Minister Alberto Cardenas said on Thursday.

Four more people in the Philippines have been discovered infected by the Ebola-Reston virus and the possibility of pig-to-human transmission cannot be dismissed, the government said Friday.

In the wake of a finding indicating human exposure to the Ebola Reston virus (ERV) in the country, health authorities cautioned consumers to make sure the pork they eat is thoroughly cooked.

U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., introduced legislation Wednesday to prevent the importation of livestock from Argentina until the United States Department of Agriculture can certify that Argentina is free of Foot and Mouth Disease.

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in August 2007 drove the Korean government to ban all pork products from the United Kingdom. According to the Agriculture Ministry, the British government had requested for a resumption of its meat imports, following its classification as a "clean" nation by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency expects final recommendations for regulatory changes that will reduce the risk of food becoming contaminated by listeria by the end of March.

The EU proposal focuses on ensuring there is a level playing field with respect to welfare standards for animals killed in a slaughterhouse, on a farm or for disease management purposes and that they are spared avoidable suffering. The proposal covers all animals including poultry and fish, but excludes reptiles and amphibians.

The European Commission has today decided to open a formal investigation procedure, under the Treaty rules on State aid, into the aid which Portugal has been granting since 1998 to cover the costs of the collection, transportation, treatment and destruction of mammalian and poultry meat by-products. The aid has been funded by means of parafiscal charges levied inter alia on any overcompensation given to undertakings which provide services and on any benefit granted to slaughtering and cutting centres and to livestock farmers for services rendered to them.

Czech meat output dropped by 11 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2008 owing to a considerable fall in pork and poultry production. In full-year 2008, meat output amounted to 598,953 tonnes in carcass value, down 4.4 percent year-on-year.

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr Brendan Smith TD today formally launched Animal Health Ireland (AHI), which aims to improve overall animal health standards and thereby secure improved profitability for farmers and international competitiveness of livestock products through a coordinated national approach to animal health.

Since the inspection service was first moved in 2002, there are 37 slaughterhouses that are now covered by the Agriculture and Livestock Service (Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, SAG). (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).