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Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture, Rural Development, Fishing and Food, Francisco Mayorga Castañeda, and New Zealand’s Minister of Agriculture, David Carter, signed a Memorandum on Understanding.

Animals kept for breeding as of June 1 are expected to decline about 3.5 percent from 5.968 million head a year earlier, based on a survey of analysts conducted by Dow Jones Newswires before the USDA’s Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report.

Colombia's pending free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada has been finalized after passing a vote Monday night in the Canadian Senate, according to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

A study conducted by the consulting company Inventica revealed that in 2009 the volume of Russian production of pigs was 2,169 tons the slaughter weight, which is 6.2% more compared with the previous year.

Meat imports into Vietnam during January to May 2010 soared threefold year-on-year to 50,000 tonnes, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman welcomed producers of Gloucestershire Old Spots pork – also known as Gloucester Old Spots – to the growing list of British specially protected foods and drink that have gained specially protected status throughout Europe.

The data from the March MARM Panel of food consumption shows that the consumption of meat products in Spanish homes increased to 673.911 tons.

The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food of Mexico, Francisco Mayorga Castañeda communicated that Mexico will increment its meat exports to Russia, Vietnam and Singapore while they continue negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.

Food labels should feature mandatory nutritional information and guideline daily amounts, according to draft EU legislation as adopted by MEPs on Wednesday. However, they rejected a proposal for 'traffic light' values to highlight the salt, sugar and fat content of processed foods.

Farm commodity prices have fallen from their record peaks of two years ago but are unlikely to drop back to their average levels of the past decade, according to the annual joint report from the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In 2009 a total of 384 mill. Kg of meat was produced in Finland. This is about 25% more than in 1995.

On May 28, 2010, Mexico published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) a new Reliable Importer Program for meat and poultry imports. This voluntary program will allow shipments of imported meat and poultry to forego sanitary inspection at the border, and instead be inspected at the destination, reducing logistical bottlenecks at border inspection points.

In the course of the inspection of Brazilian meat processing plants, which was carried out by the Rosselkhoznadzor specialists in April 2010, it was found out that most Brazilian plants that used to export their products to Russia, do not fulfill veterinary-sanitary norms and requirements.

On an annual basis, fresh and frozen pork is up 3.1% while shoulder roasting joints are up 40% and loin roasting joints are up 11.7%.

More than half of the total meat consumption consists of pig meat products.

The average Belgian bought 32.1 kg of fresh meat in 2009. That is a decline of 500 g compared to the previous year.