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The EU’s request for the establishment of a WTO panel will presumably be discussed for the first time at a special meeting of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 10 July 2014.

From January to May Russia imported 61,527 tonnes of Brazilian pig meat, and this means an increase by 9.29% in terms of volume.

New packaging and processing technologies are extending the shelf-life of fresh and processed meat.

Other top exported product categories included wheat, non-specific food preparations, ice-cream, chocolate and confectionery, pig meat...

For the month of April, total U.S. pork exports (muscle cuts plus variety meat) rose 11 percent over year-ago levels in volume to 192,924 metric tons (mt).

A number of member States supported the Commission and considers that it would be extremely difficult and very expensive to apply to swine, sheep, goat and poultry meat, rules equivalent to those applicable to beef meat.

The Mexican company Sigma and the Chinese company WH Group (formerly Shuanghui) will control 98.31% of the stockholders' equity of Campofrio.

Pork and pork products must be derived from lots of hogs that have negative test results for ractopamine.

Meat prices averaged 189.1 points in May, nearly unchanged from April.

The abattoir has a slaughtering capacity of 3,800 cattle heads and 5,600 pigs per month.

Mexico exported 86,294 tonnes of pig meat in 2013.

According to the USDA Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade repor, that Fiscal Year 2014 agricultural exports will reach $149.5 billion, an estimated $6.9 billion higher than previous estimates.

The new cluster, led by Swine Innovation Porc, will help industry experts, scientists and academics to increase market share and competitiveness by enhancing the nutritional value of pork products.

Pig meat production has grown by 164% in the last 10 years.

Pig meat exports have reached 654,067 tonnes during the first trimester of this year, and this entails a decrease by 9.1% with respect to the same period in 2013.

During last April, the pig meat exports increased by 19.66% in terms of volume and by 19.74% in terms of value with respect to April 2013.