The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Wednesday announced out of more than 4,000 wild salmon samples tested last year, all tested negative for infectious salmon anemia (ISA).
State limits on foreign ownership of farmland and concerns over US pork exports to Japan have emerged as possible challenges to a Chinese company's planned $4.7 billion takeover of industrial hog farmer Smithfield Foods Inc.
Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., the beef and pork subsidiary of Tyson Foods, Inc., has a new senior vice president of pork margin management, the company announced Thursday.
A testing conducted to assess the use of sulphur dioxide in meat revealed that all 140 fresh meat samples passed the test, according to Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS) of FEHD.
Published: Jun 09, 2013
By: Dave Graham and Adriana Barrera
Mexico's Economy Ministry said on Friday it was considering suspending preferential trade tariffs with the United States for a variety of products in a simmering dispute over meat labeling.
Brazil's JBS SA, the world's largest meat producer, will announce the purchase of Brazilian poultry producer Seara, a unit of Marfrig Alimentos SA , in the coming days.
The average Chinese citizen will be eating 42.6 kg of fish in 2022, an average annual increase of 1.5 percent over the next decade, meaning China as a whole will eat 63 million tons of fish by then.
Scotland First Minister Alex Salmond MSP has officially opened a new Marine Harvest’s new GBP 16 million (USD, 24 million, EUR 18.8 million) smolt hatchery in Lochaber.
Hilton Foods said it continued to benefit from geographical diversity and grow the business, whilst as anticipated, challenging conditions for the consumer have been experienced in some markets.
Integrated meat processing company Cherkizovo Group has seen revenue increase by eight per cent to $385.0 million for the first quarter of 2013 from $357.3 million in the first quarter of 2012.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) announced April 29, 2013 its decision to compensate Hanwoo beef cattle and calf farmers that suffered losses caused by the KORUS FTA.
Canada wants to impose tariffs on U.S. imports ranging from meat to cherries, rice and potatoes to retaliate against the United States for what it calls a costly meat labeling requirement, escalating a 4-year-old dispute.
