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The Chinese government has sold its second batch this year of frozen pork from state reserves to help stabilize prices, the Ministry of Commerce said on Nov. 10.

With the objective of further guaranteeing meat quality, last October the German Federal Chamber of Veterinarians published, in conjunction with the Regional Veterinary Medicine Work Group, a revised guide on the sensible use of antibiotics in livestock.

According to the Argentine Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing, Lorenzo Basso, the decrease in cow meat has led to an increase in the consumption of pork meat.

The invoicing and commercialized volume of pork meat will decrease in 2010 and 2011, after 2009 when consumption increased, but sales value decreased.

The investment, as well as the mergers, made during the last 10 years have led to the creation of large groups of slaughterhouses, usually multi-species, that operate in different countries and often include processing activities. Danish Crown, a witness to the continuing changes in the European slaughterhouse sector and holder of the second place title in 2009, has been situated in first place after last October’s acquisition of the German company, D&S Fleisch.

] India has inaugurated the food testing laboratory of the National Meat & Poultry Processing Board to ensure supply of quality and safe meat and poultry products.

Hunan Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said that Hunan Province exported 10 tons of frozen fresh pork to Malaysia, which valued $ 47,800. It is the first time that China export frozen fresh pork to this country.

Pig meat production went down by 3,9 % year-on-year to 66187 tonnes. Numbers of slaughtered pigs decreased to 753.333 heads, i.e. by 4,6 % year-on-year, but numbers of slaughtered sows were by 13,7 % higher than in the 3rd quarter of the previous year. Deficit of foreign trade in pig meat exceeded 40 thousand tonnes. Import of live pigs went down year-on-year by 26,5 % (6.100 tonnes in total), whereas export rose by 81,2 % to 3.951 tonnes.

The Fédération des producteurs de porcs du Québec (FPPQ) is proud to announce the release of its own sustainable development indicators for pork production, a first for agriculture in Quebec.

As a European Commission survey has revealed, Europeans consumers have an unhealthy distrust of the meat industry.

Accompanied by Mexican producers and businessmen, the Secretary of Agriculture, Francisco Mayorga, assisted meetings with sector officials with the end of finalizing the processes involved in exporting Mexican pork to China.

During the first semester of 2010 the Belgian pork meat exportations have reached a volume of 372.250 tons, 3,3% more than in the same period last year.

Pig producers and abattoirs are saving time and money with the new BPEX electronic pig movement project, known in short as eAML2. The system is currently being trialled in all assured abattoirs and will go live across the industry in April 2011 for England and Wales. It has combined the Animal Movement Licence (AML2) and Food Chain Information (FCI) forms – required when pigs are moved from farm to slaughter – and made the whole process electronic.

Exports of meat and meat products (exclusive of live animals) are of less importance to the total Danish exports. In 2009 the percentage was 5.5. It is a very strong drop from 1988 where meat and meat products represented 9.8 %.

Swine closing inventories for CY 2011 are forecast at 2.5 million head, up on the 2.45 million head estimated for CY 2010. Closing inventory for CY 2009 has been revised upwards from 2.3 million head to 2.302 million head, in line with recently released official ABS statistics.

The Belgian delegation informed the ministers about the organisation of a reflection day on “The pig meat sector towards 2020”, which will take place on 3 December 2010 in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels.