Published: Jun 03, 2015

SAUDI ARABIA - The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has temporarily banned the import of poultry meat, eggs, their products and equipment from five more regions in the United States because of the spread of severe bird flu disease there.

Published: Jun 03, 2015

ARMENIA - Armenia has banned the import of poultry products from a number of US states over bird flu concerns, the press service of the Armenian Agriculture Ministry’s service on food safety has said.

Published: Jun 03, 2015

“This is our 6th annual food safety research symposium, says Bonnie Fenaroli, executive director of the Center for Produce Safety (CPS). This event was created to share food safety research results with everyone along the fresh produce supply chain. “Our

Published: Jun 03, 2015

The European Commission has pulled out an old tax plan from 2011. The plans provides a European tax system for companies, which should stop the tax evasion of multinationals. EU commissioner Vladis Dombrovskis says a new version of the plan will be presen

Published: Jun 03, 2015

Access to the best food and produce in the world is the goal of USA Food & Produce Worldwide, Inc., a leading export and trading company based in Bakersfield, CA.

Published: Jun 03, 2015

Belgium wants to implement a kilometre tax for lorries as of 1 April 2016, just for those above 3.5 tonnes for now. Many are not happy with this. There may be protests from the transport sector in Belgium against the intended kilometre tax for lorries. Br

Published: Jun 03, 2015

Distell has recalled the wines below as they may contain very small fragments of glass. The wines are sold in Morrisons, Tesco and Waitrose.

Published: Jun 03, 2015

Growers of grapes, blueberries, kiwis, apples, avocados, cherries and citrus will be competing with Chile in various export markets across the world, notably The USA, China and some parts of Europe including the Netherlands, according to Colin Fain, of Ag

Published: Jun 02, 2015

Australian consumer organisation CHOICE says a food industry marketing technique called the ‘’halo effect’ is misleading customers.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

It is really difficult to calculate the true cost of a product recall. There are many factors to consider. The costs of advertising your recall, the transport and destruction of the product, the cost of replacing your product for consumers, any fines you

Published: Jun 02, 2015

Woolworths’ marketing leadership team has experienced another sudden change in personnel and a cloud of uncertainty has arisen. It was only recently that Chief Marketing Officer, Tony Phillips, left the company suddenly and unexpectedly without an announc

Published: Jun 02, 2015

Nomad Holdings has completed the previously announced acquisition of frozen food company Iglo Foods from Permira Advisers for €2.6bn.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

Even though export markets for Chilean prunes and walnuts have diversified to the point of reaching over 75 countries, the European Union is still a critically important trade destination.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

The California Agricultural Export Council (CAEC) returns to the London Produce Show for its second year in an effort to grow market share in the UK for California-grown Medjool dates.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

For all logistic service suppliers in conditioned transport the challenge is to get the most efficient division of the group loading to go hand in hand with the desired temperature. To be able to realise this, FTT Holland, part of the Farm Trans Group, th

Published: Jun 02, 2015

Even though the Minister of Agriculture, Jorge Arango, said the country's import system was a mess and haS ruined domestic production, the Government has imported 789,673 quintals of onions, potatoes and paddy in 11 months.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

On 20 May, Chilean and Chinese authorities met in Santiago de Chile to negotiate an expansion in the export of Chilean products to the Chinese market.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

Russia is taking steps to lift the boycott of Moldovan fruit. Still, the Eastern European country chooses the EU over Russia. Russia is inspecting companies in Lithuania. After Hungary, Cyprus and Greece, it's now the Baltic country's turn.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

INDIA - Agrifood giant Cargill has planned an animal feed mill in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.

Published: Jun 02, 2015

IRELAND – There is “no doubt” that a sizeable spike in production is evidence of Irish farmers responding to the post-quota era.