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The 54% of the total value of the exportations is due to pig meat.

The WTO arbitrator decided that the United States has until May 23, 2013, to bring its COOL measure into compliance with its WTO obligations.

FDA concludes that the proposed use of irradiation to provide for the safe use of a 4.5 kGy maximum dose of ionizing radiation to treat meat is safe.

The restrictions were imposed due to the outbreak of Classical Swine Fever in Latvia.

The organic pig meat production reached 23,000 tons (+1.7%).

New Zealand Pork is appealing against a High Court ruling backing the Ministry for Primary Industries' decision to allow uncooked pork to be imported from countries where PRRS is present.

Belarus banned the import of pork from Moscow Oblast of the Russian Federation and Latvia on 23 November due to outbreaks of ASF and CSF.

According to the Eurostat data about the slaughtering of pigs in 2012 and the forecasts for 2013, a decrease by 0.4% in foreseen for the EU-27.

During the first seven months of the year, consumption of pork and beef decreased by two percent.

Saigon Agriculture Incorporation (Sagri), a state enterprise under the Ho Chi Minh City administration, plans to expand its pork supply chain to provide the city with over 3 million pigs a year.

Fresh milk (37%), cooking oil (35%), pork (33%), beef (26%) and chicken (26%) are the top five categories.

Ending stocks of pork cuts increased to 631 million pounds in September, an increase of 28.5 percent over a year earlier.

The National Pork Board has approved domestic and international marketing budgets that will help drive pork demand at a critical time.

In Mexico there are 265,747 producers that work in the stockbreeding sector, and they provide the tables of the Mexicans with meat, egg and dairy products.

Global meat production in 2012 is forecast to grow by less than 2 percent to 302 million tonnes.

For January through September, pork exports were up 2 percent in volume at 1.657 million metric tons and up 6 percent in value to $4.6 billion.