Published: Jan 07, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Australian mutton shipments during 2012 lifted 30% on the previous year, to 106,696 tonnes swt.

Published: Jan 06, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Ball Park, which is owned by Hillshire Brands Co., is introducing lean beef and pork franks.

Published: Jan 06, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Viet Nam’s total seafood production in 2012 reached an estimated 5.74 million tonnes, a 5.1 per cent rise from last year.

Published: Jan 06, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Marine Harvest has sold the 31.3 per cent stake in Aquagen to Aquagen's majority owner EW Group GmbH for NOK 173 mill.

Published: Jan 06, 2013 By: Carina Perkins

The South African government has rejected a controversial proposal to introduce anti-dumping duties on Brazilian exports of whole birds and boneless chicken cuts.

Published: Jan 06, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Brazil warns countries that have banned imports of beef because of atypical BSE

Published: Jan 06, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture informed the Brazilian embassy in Cairo that Egypt was not placing a temporary ban on Brazilian beef imports.

Published: Jan 05, 2013 By: Foodmate team

A recent study contradicts earlier findings of reduced growth and appetite in salmon.

Published: Jan 05, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Vietnamese seafood companies think that only when the ethoxyquin problem is settled, will Vietnam be able to boost shrimp exports.

Published: Jan 05, 2013 By: Foodmate team

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Thursday released its preliminary forecast for the 2013 Copper River and Prince William Sound (PWS) salmon fisheries.

Published: Jan 05, 2013

For the last week of December, export prices of fresh salmon came to NOK 33.11 (USD 5.90, EUR 4.53) per kilo — a 12 percent increase from the previous seven-day period.

Published: Jan 05, 2013

A Spanish biotech firm is starting up a new project to develop better vaccination programs in fish farms to protect against livestock diseases.

Published: Jan 04, 2013 By: Foodmate team

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has reported that about 100.700ha of brackish water shrimp was damaged in 2012 due to disease.

Published: Jan 04, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Brazilian food company Brasil Foods (BRF) has acquired 33% stake in Avex, Argentina' s leading poultry producer and exporter.

Published: Jan 04, 2013

US-based egg producer Cal-Maine Foods has reported that its net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 decreased by 38.6% to $14.3m

Published: Jan 04, 2013 By: Mark Godfrey

Surging Chinese demand and solid U.S. consumption levels means 2013 will be a good year for oysters producers

Published: Jan 04, 2013 By: Mark Godfrey

AgriMarine’s China subsidiary celebrated Christmas by introducing its locally produced Pacific salmon to China’s retail market.

Published: Jan 04, 2013 By: Mike Urch

As supermarket shelves were groaning under the weight of festive fare last week, smoked salmon was noticeably prominent.

Published: Jan 04, 2013 By: Joe Whitworth

An E.coli investigation in Canada has ended with no identified source and Sunland Inc., has had its food facility registration restored after its peanuts were linked to salmonella, in this news round-up.

Published: Jan 04, 2013

The Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries (CGSI) has filed petitions with the US government seeking punitive duties against allegedly subsidized shrimp imports.