Published: Feb 06, 2013 By: News Editor

Vietnamese seafood producers are prepared to embark on a long battle against a US Department of Commerce anti-subsidy investigation to see whether the country and six others have been engaged in unfair trade practices.

Published: Feb 06, 2013 By: News Editor

A NSW mid-North Coast abattoir has been added to the Food Authority’s ‘Name and Shame’ register following a lengthy hearing over “mutton dressed as lamb.”

Published: Feb 06, 2013 By: Dean Best

US meat group Tyson Foods is expanding four of its plants in the country as part of a strategy to "add value" to their products.

Published: Feb 05, 2013 By: News Editor

McDonald's says it is offering its first new Happy Meal in a decade: Fish McBites.

Published: Feb 05, 2013 By: News Editor

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Published: Feb 05, 2013 By: News Editor

Frank M. Ravndal, Jr. will assume the position of CEO of Keystone Foods effective Feb. 17, according to its parent company Marfrig Group. He succeeds William Andersen, who held the position on an interim basis. Keystone is a subsidiary of Marfrig.

Published: Feb 05, 2013 By: Keith Nunes

Executives with Tyson Foods often cite the company’s focus on beef, chicken and pork as the key to its success, but as the effects of last year’s drought on the beef and pork complexes becomes more apparent, it is clear they see greater promise in the com

Published: Feb 04, 2013

UK-based meat processing company Cranswick Country Foods is set to establish a new pork packing plant in Hull, a move which is expected to create 100 jobs.

Published: Feb 04, 2013

JBS, a Brazilian meat manufacturer, has completed the acquisition of beef processor Independencia for BRL268m ($142.8m).

Published: Feb 04, 2013

Russia and Norway are introducing a new veterinary certificate for fish as of February 1.

Published: Feb 04, 2013

With robust investments in infrastructure, Indian fish production will cross 13 million metric tons (MT) by 2016 from the current level of over nine million MT.

Published: Feb 04, 2013

The company which supplied halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA to prisons has been named.

Published: Feb 04, 2013

A fish farming group says open-ocean aquaculture poses little threat to wild populations and they are 150 times cheaper to operate

Published: Feb 01, 2013 By: Idealog

Sealord has signed on to WWF’s Western Central Pacific Tuna Conservation Pledge and announced its intention to reduce non-tuna bycatch to no more than one percent of total catch by 2015.

Published: Feb 01, 2013

Intertek Moody Marine, a third-party assessor for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), has paved the way for the Dutch Oyster Association to get MSC certification.

Published: Feb 01, 2013

Total commercial red meat production in the United States during December 2012 was 3,996.5 million lbs, down 7% from November and down 5% from December 2011.

Published: Feb 01, 2013

Fishery management officials meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jan. 30, imposed drastic new cuts to the cod harvest off the Atlantic coast.

Published: Jan 31, 2013

Russia is set to impose ban on the imports of meat and meat products beginning 11 February over the concerns that they may contain ractopamine.

Published: Jan 31, 2013

Japan has agreed to ease the restrictions on beef imports from Canada by allowing beef from animals aged up to 30 months from 1 February.

Published: Jan 31, 2013

The ABP Food Group welcomes the statement from Minister Coveney this afternoon about the equine DNA issue.