pigmeat

A research collaboration between Britain and Belgium has been launched to help protect UK pigmeat exports, currently valued at PS350 million, from being damaged by African swine fever (ASF).

An exception will be made for products processed using technology to ensure virus destruction - ready-made pigmeat products; finished products containing pig or animal raw materials from pork; raw materials of animal origin from pigmeat intended for the production of feed for non-productive animals and for fur animals.

The FAO Meat Price Index was broadly unchanged as bovine meat prices rose and pigmeat quotations dropped.

Riyadh, Rajab 14,1438, April 11, 2017-- King Fahd Causeway customs officials have successfully foiled as many as 102 attempts to smuggle alcohol, kerosene, petroleum products, pigmeat and forbidden birds to import in Saudi Arabia during the period between 2 - 11/7/1438 H.

It welcomed moves by the EC to set up a Meat Market Observatory for beef and pigmeat - but said lamb should be included too.

IFA pigs and pigmeat committee chairman Pat O'Flaherty said: "We introduced the DNA-certified pigmeat traceability programme to stop the blatant misleading of consumers.

In addition, the UN agriculture agency noted that strong supply conditions for wheat and soy oil, as well as abundant global pigmeat available for export, had also contributed to the products price decline.

ALTHOUGH the pigs who lived in Glasgow's Queen's Park before they were slaughtered were no doubt happier than those raised in factory farms, Locavore owner Reuben Chesters has no right to claim his shop is "ethical" when he sells the resulting pigmeat.

As is the case with the Snowbird Gourmet Sausage recipes, the Gourmet Plus range is made with breed specific, outdoor bred pigmeat drawn from single source British Red Tractor holdings.

Polish pigmeat producers from the regions affected by the recent African swine fever (ASF) outbreak will be compensated for their losses, Polish Agriculture Minister Stanislaw Kalemba said after meeting Commissioners Dacian Ciolos (agriculture) and Tonio Borg (health), on 6 March in Brussels.

NPA chairman Richard Longthorp said: "We have been pressuring Brussels for more than a year to take measures to protect European consumers from illegally produced pigmeat.