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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 %.

In the 2nd quarter of 2010, 136 593 tonnes of meat were produced and 585 478 thousand litres of milk were purchased; i.e. a decrease in both meat production (by 3.4 %) and milk collection (by 2.4 %) y-o-y. The production declined in all of main kinds of meat: in beef, pig meat, and poultry (by 1.4 %, 4.6 %, and 2.3 %, respectively).

Following a request European Commission, the Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on safety and efficacy of using recycled hot water as a decontamination technique for meat carcasses. The Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) was asked to assess the abiotic risks.

Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Livestock, Davinio Catbagan and Acting Executive Director of the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) Atty. Jane Bacayo sign a Memorandum of Agreement on the Meat Establishment Improvement Program along with mayors of recipient municipalities on October 18, 2010.

Recovering from a 12% drop in 2009, pork trade grows by 2.8% (122 tmt) annually in the next decade, reaching 5.52 mmt in 2019. Pork production increases in the next decade at a rate of 1.9% (1.85 mmt), reaching 115.46 mmt in 2019.