South Africa has renewed imports of US chicken, beef and pork products, bringing an end to a 15-year trade dispute with the country. The South African government concluded months of discussions over 'the three meats' with the US, under ...
Tags: South Africa, AGOA, US Poultry Imports
South Korea has stalled the imports of US poultry and poultry meat following new cases of bird flu. This ban comes just two months after the Asian country resumed the shipments. However, imports of poultry meat treated with heat are not ...
Tags: US Poultry, Bird Flu
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 ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, hatching eggs
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 ...
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, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Policy, Opinion
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 ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry product
Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on imports of poultry meat and egg products from the Canadian province of Ontario over the detection of avian influenza at three farms. Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry meat
A commercial poultry flock in Minnesota was tested positive for a strain of H5N2 avian influenza, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). This comes after two other farms in Pope and Lac qui Parle counties of western ...
Hong Kong has imposed a ban on poultry imports from some regions of Japan, Israel and Nigeria due to H5 avian influenza outbreak. The ban has been imposed on poultry, poultry products and eggs from Okayama prefecture in Japan, Haifa ...
Tags: eggs, meat, Agriculture
Ukraine has imposed a ban on all live birds and bird product imports from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany over bird flu outbreak. The ban will continue until the international watchdog ensures that these countries are free from bird ...
Tags: bird flu, bird product imports, Agriculture
A project funded by the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) is helping to encourage Mexican meat processors to diversify their ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meal offerings to include more U.S. poultry as a main ingredient. ISA – the ...
Tags: Soybeans, U.S.Soybeans, Value-Added Poultry, Egg Exports
Zambeef Products, a Zambia-based meat products company, is set to invest $250m to boost locally-sourced produce, as the country suspended beef and poultry imports from Europe over contamination concerns. The company plans to establish a ...
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has issued a ban on import of poultry and poultry products from Hualien County, Taiwan over fears of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N2 and H5N3 avian ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, Food
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has issued a ban on import of poultry and poultry products from Lower Saxony, Germany over fears of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. The ...
Tags: Bans Poultry Imports, Food
Russia has threatened to ban imports of chilled meat from the US due to the presence of feed additive ractopamine, in the latest in a series of food safety complaints from the ex-Soviet power. Russia is considering a temporary ban on ...
Tags: Russia, US, Meat Ban, Ractopamine