Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Arabella Mileham

The future of troubled French poultry processor Groupe Doux is still in limbo after a French court postponed a final decision on its fate until October.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Thai firm Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) has agreed to significant poultry investments in China as part of a drive to improve agricultural productivity in the country.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Ukranian officials have attended ministerial meetings in the US and China recently to discuss enhanced trading relationships and agricultural cooperation.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Arabella Mileham

The beef trade in Namibia decreased by 28.8% in the first six months of 2012, the Meat Board of Namibia has revealed in its six-monthly review, with exports “significantly lower” than the same period in 2011.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

A video showing an Australian pork producer and his employees mistreating their pigs has been sent to the pork producer organisation Australian Pork Limited (APL).

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

Cromer Crab Company’s factory door closed for the last time on Friday last week (August 3).

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Rick Pendrous

Britain’s biggest food manufacturer Premier Foods expects to achieve efficiency savings of £40M earlier than expected as a result of its restructuring plans, it emerged in its half-year results released today.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

Hundreds of food manufacturing workers were evacuated as 20 firefighters battled to extinguish a fire at a meat processing site in Shropshire last week (August 3).

Published: Aug 08, 2012

To address the dwindling fish catch from communal bodies of water in the province, some irrigator- associations in the municipalities of Diffun, Cabarroguis, and Maddela have started farming of tilapia in cages.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

The state of Gujarat has the potential to feed fish to the entire country. This is what Dr B Meenakumari, deputy director general (fisheries) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi has opined.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

Across the UK, over 4,000 schools are serving MSC certified fish, every UK branch of McDonalds sells the MSC certified fillet-o-fish and there are a selection of restaurants and chippies also certified.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

When ordering seafood, the options are many and so are some of the things you might consider in what you order.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

One of the most invasive species on the planet is able to source food from the land as well as its usual food sources in the water, research from Queen Mary, University of London has found.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

As from 1 September, new formats for health certificates issued for fishery products for human consumption and not for human consumption, for Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, will become effective.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

In a determined bid to make aquaculture a growing and vibrant food production sector, Dr Fuad bin Ja'afar Al Sajwani, minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth called upon investors to exploit the huge potential available in the aquaculture and integra

Published: Aug 08, 2012

Favourable weather conditions and new boats helped fishermen for the first seven months of the year, compared to the same period last year.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

The Îles-de-la-Madeleine lobster (Homarus americanus) baited trap fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east coast of Canada has entered into full assessment in the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification programme.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

Fisheries Minister, Michelle O’Neill has announced that a deal had been secured with the European Commission for an in-year increase to the catch of Irish Sea Herring.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Canadian Cattlemen's Association (CCA) are releasing a national biosecurity standard designed specifically for the country's beef industry.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

Mexico's Ministry of Economy announced its resolution to an antidumping case involving chicken leg quarters imported to Mexico from the United States.