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The scientists found markers for meat quality that could be used, so now it is just a matter of developing tools for practical use.

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Two timely nutrient data sets provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are being used by the beef and pork industries to provide new Nutrition Facts labels for their products.

Pork production in the January-September 2011 period fell 0.6% to 35.68 million tonnes.

European Commission has adopted new regulation (EU) No 16/2012 of 11 January 2012 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the requirements concerning frozen food of animal origin intended for human consumption.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 179 points, slightly down compared with November. The decline was mainly driven by pig meat, whose price dropped by 2.2 percent

According to the Resolution, the TRQ for pork is set at at 400,000 MT.

With 33.6 kg per inhabitant pig meat still is the favored meat for French consumers ahead of beef with 25.8 kg and poultry 24.7 kg.

Meat imports into Vietnam jumped 30% to 107,000 tonnes in 2011, reflecting that blue ear disease (PRRS) and cross border trade of live pigs during the year resulted in a sharp drop in the country's meat supplies.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recognized Brazilian sanitary inspectors as capable of approving slaughterhouses in southern Santa Catarina state to export raw pork meat to the U.S..

According to the date of the state committee of statistics, at the beginning of December 2011 the number of pigs (7,835,800) decreased in comparison with the same date in 2010.

The self-sufficiency ratio of the meat stood at 60.3 percent at the end of last year, down 20.6 percentage points from a year earlier.

Pig meat is expected to remain the preferred meat in the EU with 41.6 kg per capita consumption in 2020.

China will import an estimated 1.4 million tons of pig meat in 2012, according to the latest Rabobank report, up from a projected 1.1 million tons in 2011.

Last year, Polish imports of Danish weaners increased from a few thousand to more than 800,000. Poland now accounts for nearly 10 percent of Danish weaner exports.

Local meat consumption has reached 3.3 million tons, with an anticipated increase of 7% compared to this year.