Think-Tank Wants GE Food Assessment Process Re-Jigged
NEW ZEALAND - A Wellington think-tank wants the Government to formally opt out of a trans-Tasman food regulator's decision to approve for human consumption a corn genetically engineered for use as stockfeed.

Greens seek labels on all fresh food
NEW ZEALAND - The steaks you sizzle on the summer barbecue come from New Zealand - don't they?

Grain Prices Concern Pork Producers
NEW ZEALAND - Pork producers have real concerns over recent grain price predictions. The latest analysis shows that the bottom line has all but disappeared for those putting pork, bacon and ham on New Zealanders’ plates.

Industry warns of deadly disease if pork import rules change
NEW ZEALAND - Pork Industry representatives have met Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton to discuss their concerns about changes to the importing of pork, which could introduce a deadly disease.

Pork belly trading pit slaughtered
NEW ZEALAND - The once raucous pork-belly trading pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, featured in the 1980s Dan Aykroyd-Eddie Murphy comedy Trading Places, will fall silent, swept aside by the rush to do business on screens.

Imports threaten pork industry
NEW ZEALAND - A Massey University specialist in animal diseases says MAF's biosecurity risk analysis for the pig disease PRRS (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome) falls well short of what is required.

Organic a serious commercial option for NZ food industry
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand's Minister of Agriculture, Biosecurity Fisheries and Forestry Jim Anderton, gave full backing to the organic food sector at Organics Aotearoa New Zealand's national conference.

Minister must show leadership on border security
NEW ZEALAND - National’s Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern, says it’s time Jim Anderton took control of Biosecurity NZ to ensure it has the ability to uphold import health standards before allowing the importation of chilled pig meat into New Zeala...

Pork industry urged to police itself against contagious swine disease
NEW ZEALAND - Biosecurity New Zealand says the pork industry will have to police itself to ensure no pig meat is fed to pigs if it wants to minimise the risk of introducing a devastating swine disease.

Pig farmers nervous
NEW ZEALAND - The pig industry is getting nervous about a proposed plan to relax meat import standards.

Pig farmers push to maintain pork import rules
NEW ZEALAND - Pig farmers say they want the Government to maintain existing border controls which keep untreated pork from many countries out of New Zealand.

Exotic disease incursion worries pork farmers
NEW ZEALAND - The increasing risk of exotic diseases entering New Zealand, as a result of a proposed relaxation of border controls by Biosecurity New Zealand, is casuing extreme to pork producers.

Pork industry plans for growth
NEW ZEALAND - Is pork about to become the new chicken? Many New Zealanders eat chicken three or four times a week, but lately they've been having second thoughts.

High octane plan for pig farm
NEW ZEALAND - Pig poo could soon be helping to power Waikato homes.

MP moves to save New Zealand bacon
NEW ZEALAND - It's marketed as "the taste of New Zealand", but now the iconic Kiwi Bacon brand is facing a Commerce Commission complaint because some of its pork is imported.