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Pig Industry News by Topic
News by Topic: Pig Meat Quality
Monday, February 02, 2009
Six TQASM Advisor Training Workshops Scheduled US - The Pork Checkoff is offering six Transporter Quality Assurance (TQASM) advisor training workshops in 2009.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
USMEF Hosts European Union's PRT Team US - The US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) is hosting key officials from the European Union’s meat industry this week for a four-day tour focused on pathogen reduction technologies (PRTs).
Jamie Saves Our Bacon UK - Jamie Oliver's hour-and-a-half long programme Jamie Saves Our Bacon will be aired tonight on Channel 4, starting at 9 PM.
NFUS Praises Waitrose's 'Buy British' Plea SCOTLAND - NFU Scotland has praised Waitrose for urging its shoppers to buy British pork, echoing the sentiment that buying British is the best way to ensure that animals are reared to high welfare st...
QSM Anniversary: Gordon Ramsey Quote UK - The following is a quote by Gordon Ramsey to BPEX on the 10th Anniversary of the QSM (Quality Standard Mark).
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
BPEX: £3 Million Backing For QSM UK - It’s business as usual for the Quality Standard Mark for pork bacon and ham, says BPEX Chairman Stewart Houston.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
New Policy Issued to Prevent Hog Price Decline CHINA - AgFeed Industries, Inc., the largest commercial hog producer and the largest premix feed company in China, today commented on a recently released Chinese central government administrative regulation...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Will US Consumers Eat Up GM Meat Rule? US - On January 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided how it will regulate genetically engineered animals, for the first time paving the way for such animals or their products to be sold as...
Maple Leaf Foods Enhances Safety Protocols CANADA - While listeria exists in all ready-to-eat plants and presents an exceptionally low risk, Maple Leaf has implemented industry leading practices to detect and eradicate listeria, which are performing...
Tainted Irish Pork Seized in Eastern China CHINA - Chinese quarantine authorities in the eastern city of Nanjing have seized more than 23 tonnes of frozen Irish pork that was found to be contaminated with dioxin and ordered it be returned, state...
Consumers Looking For Quality Ham UK - The Quality Standard Mark for ham is becoming increasingly important as more and more consumers look for country of origin when shopping.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
EFSA Tracks European Zoonoses EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Community Zoonoses Report for 2007, which analyses the occurrence of...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Pigs Illegally Injected with Water in Tianjin CHINA - Food inspectors in north China have discovered that a city-backed pork products plant was injecting pigs with water to illegally increase their weight.
PM Interrogated Over Welfare Standards UK - Richard Bacon (Lab), a long-term supporter of the pig industry posed a question to Gordon Brown pointing out 70 per cent of imported pork is reared to unacceptable welfare standards.
Monday, January 19, 2009
USDA: Naturally Raised Marketing Claim Standard US - The US Department of Agriculture on Friday (16 January) issued a voluntary standard for naturally raised livestock and meat marketing claims.
Friday, January 16, 2009
The Future of US Livestock is Genetically Modified US - The US Food and Drug Administration today issued a final guidance for industry on the regulation of genetically engineered (GE) animals, which advises the use of GE animals for food.
UFU Comment on Discussions Regarding Dioxin Scare NORTHERN IRELAND - The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has commented following the outcome of the Northern Ireland Executive meeting at which the plight of farmers and processors affected by the contaminated...
South Korea to Ship Pigs to North SEOUL - South Korea's Jeju island will on Friday send equipment to build a farm in North Korea which will raise the island's speciality black pigs, officials said.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
NPB Announces 2009 Celebrated Chefs US - America's pork producers entered the 13th year of their Celebrated Chefs program by naming five distinguished chefs as spokespersons for the Pork Checkoff and The Other White Meat. More than 50 leading...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Farmers Not to Be Blamed for Beta-Agonist MALAYSIA - The banned beta-agonist substance found in pigs have found its way not through unscrupulous farmers looking to increase their livestock's lean meat but through a permissible hormone.
Australia Forecasts an Organic Future AUSTRALIA - From delectable dairy to chemical free meat, IBISWorld market researchers have predicted Australians will turn towards organic and biodynamic with renewed energy in the years ahead.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Pork Export Accreditation Plans Put on Hold THE PHILIPPINES - The government has temporarily set aside its plans to tap Asian markets for its pork exports, pending findings of tests by an international team now in the country to study the Ebola...
Friday, January 09, 2009
Dead, Diseased Pigs Sold for Food CHINA - Six people have been detained in southern China's Guangdong Province for allegedly running a network that processed and sold meat from dead and diseased pigs.
First British Breeding Pigs Exported to Cambodia CAMBODIA - The first of 600 genetically-advanced breeding pigs have been shipped out to Cambodia as part of a 20-year franchise agreement in a deal clinched by Yorkshire-based international pig-breeding...
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Irish Dioxin Scare to Undergo Analysis IRELAND - The Oireachtas agriculture committee inquiry into the handling of the pork dioxin crisis is to open this morning at Leinster House.

