New Zealand poultry producer Tegel is predicted to soon list on the New Zealand Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange. Tegel producers both chicken and turkey products and has four major processing facilities located across ...
Pizza chain Papa John's has pledged that it will begin using chicken in its products that have been raised without human and animal antibiotics, by summer 2016. The company said it would also use chicken that have been fed a 100% ...
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Poultry processor Moy Park is planning to invest £10m to expand its processing facility and hatchery in Derbyshire. The move is expected to create 100 jobs. The investment will go towards the installation of a new cutting line, ...
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The Chinese government handed over an appeal to set up a panel to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism on EU’s tariff quota on poultry on June 19, 2015, requiring to hand over the case to review panel. Official from the Department of ...
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Subway is planning to serve poultry products made from turkey and chicken raised without antibiotics. The move comes after several consumer groups came down heavily on the company for its lack of transparency in providing specific ...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has eased restrictions on Canadian poultry imports as the industry is recovering from the recent bird flu outbreak. Imports of poultry and poultry products from Ontario were banned in April after a ...
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Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative will build a $62m turkey processing facility in Hinton, a move that creates new jobs. The expansion will increase the company's poultry production by over 45% to cater to the increasing consumer demand ...
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Food safety law firm Ron Simon & Associates is suing poultry products firm Foster Farms for allegedly selling tainted chicken. The law firm, along with local counsel Gomez Trial Attorneys of San Diego, filed a lawsuit claiming that Foster ...
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Oman Food Investment Holding Company (OFIC) is planning to invest $620m to set up dairy, poultry and red meat factories in the country to boost food security. Of the total proposed investment, around 70% is derived from state-owned ...
Chicken legs from the US have made a comeback in Jordan after the latter scrapped a packaging norm. The rule that restricted the weight of chicken leg packs to 2.5kg, has been relaxed to allow up to 15kg. The Middle Eastern country ...
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South Africa will stop imposing tariffs on poultry imports from the US, paving the way to resume trade in the country which had been closed for the past 15 years. The two countries have reached an agreement to this effect, as per which, ...
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Nomad Holdings has completed the previously announced acquisition of frozen food company Iglo Foods from Permira Advisers for €2.6bn. Said to be Europe's largest branded frozen food company, Iglo operates in 12 countries in Europe, ...
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Armenia has imposed a ban on poultry product imports from 17 US states over bird flu outbreak, according to the former's Agriculture Ministry. The ban comes in the wake of avian influenza outbreak across several commercial poultry farms ...
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Russia has approved six Iranian companies to supply dairy and poultry products, a move that could allow Russia to free up from high food price inflation. The move comes after the Russian government recently said that the country will ...
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US senator Kirsten Gillibrand has launched a new bill that would improve the recall process for meat and poultry products, giving the USDA mandatory recall authority over contaminated products. This comes after a new investigation ...