The Australian government has once again come under fire over live exports after a news report revealed that exported breeding cows and sheep are suffering abuse in the Middle East.
A Scottish MEP has said that unless progress is made on compliance with the ban on partial sow stalls and tethers, he will push for guarantees to ensure retailers only source pork from farms that do meet the higher standards.
More than 150 scientists and 50 farmers came out this week in support of stricter limits on antibiotics used in animal agriculture as part of a broader effort to tackle the "health crisis" caused by growing antibiotic resistance.
Thousands of Australian sheep which were accepted into Pakistan after being rejected by Bahrain veterinary authorities may be euthanised on animal health grounds.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that its board has agreed the future approach to working with the industry on delivering meat official controls.
Mexico and Canada’s inclusion in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could provide an opportunity for US poultry producers if handled correctly by negotiators, according to industry leaders.
After India, Vietnam has become the second seafood-exporting nation to face the brunt of new Japanese regulations that will lower the acceptable levels for a key anti-oxidant used in fishmeal.
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has destroyed 131,000 fish at the Rome State Fish Hatchery in central New York due a severe outbreak of furunculosis, a bacterial fish disease.
Cargill and Safeway have announced that they are collaborating to provide steaks, roasts, stew meat, cube steak and stir fry beef in Colorado under the supermarket’s Rancher’s Reserve Tender Beef label.
India’s shrimp exporters are concerned by a new move by Japanese food safety regulators to lower the acceptable levels of a key anti-oxidant used in fishmeal.
Some customers have expressed an interest in re-introducing finely textured beef (FTB) to their ground beef products after a media storm over ‘pink slime’ prompted many to drop it earlier this year, says Cargill.
A joint operation by Victorian and NSW Fisheries Officers has resulted in the arrest of two men for allegedly being in possession of a commercial quantity of abalone in Far East Gippsland last week.
