DNA verification systems company IdentiGEN has developed a new test which can authenticate Aberdeen-Angus beef,allowing beef producers to safeguard the name and heritage of the variety. The test was commissioned by Scotland-based Aberdeen ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)has asked pig producers to take appropriate biosecurity measures to safeguard the health of their animals and people who may come into contact with them. This move comes in response to the ...
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UK-based Linpac Packaging has announced that the company's site in Bukowice, Poland will supply more than 100 million polystyrene trays a year to Polish meat processing company Pini Polonia, as part of a contract. Working in partnership ...
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The Achang people,one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the People's Republic of China,live mainly in Longchuan and Luxi Counties in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of southwestern Yunnan Province.Their language ...
August is the golden season of the grassland with abundant grass and strong livestock. At the end of August in lunar calendar, the Mongolians will hold a Mare Milk Festival for a whole day. This Mongolian traditional festival is commonly ...
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The Kirgiz ethnic minority is named after a word meaning forty girls. The Kirgiz have a population of 160,823 mostly distributed throughout the Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Ili, Dacheng, Aksu, Kashgar, the southwest of Xinjiang Autonomous ...
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Law firm Slaughter&May has selected information management provider Recommind's knowledge management search solution to replace its"flaky"Hummingbird document and knowledge management platform. Further reading Case study:SaaS-based ...
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WHEAT:The 2012/13 U.S.wheat balance sheet is unchanged this month;however,small by-class adjustments are made to projected exports and stocks.Projected exports for Hard Red Winter wheat are lowered 25 million bushels with Hard Red Spring ...
The proposed $4.7 billion sale of Smithfield Foods, America's largest pork producer, to China's biggest meat processing company comes amid significant trade friction between the two countries over meat and livestock. China bans ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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