The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) plans to create 16 Centres of Expertise across Canada to provide industry and CFIA inspectors with better, more consistent access to information and advice. This initiative was announced by ...
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UK pig producers have warned that around 40% of pork products imported from the European Union are illegal, following yesterday's (1 January) introduction of new EU welfare regulations that ban the use of stalls in pig rearing. ...
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International animal welfare organization Four Paws has announced that the chocolate bar Toblerone,which is owned by Mondelēz International,will now be produced only with eggs laid by cage free hens. This move comes after Mondelez ...
MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has published a new case study on Blackbaud. A leader in technology solutions ...
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Concern over the impact higher pig prices could have on UK meat processor Cranswick sent the company's shares falling today (8 October). Cranswick, which reported a 6% increase in first-half sales, said the increasing cost of animal feed ...
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Shares in UK meat processor Cranswick were up this morning (26 November) after the company said talks to secure price increases to offset higher costs were "progressing well". An increase in feed costs and upcoming EU legislation on ...
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Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
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The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has come out with ‘A Consumer's Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare’, whose aim is to dispel ambiguity faced by consumers regarding the meaning of label claims, help them purchase meat, ...
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Ann Taylor and LOFT wearers, rejoice! The parent company of those iconic clothing and accessory brands, ANN INC., has banned the use of exotic-animal skins in its product lines after meeting with PETA and learning about the extreme animal ...
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UK meat processor Linden Foods has secured a deal to supply bacon to Ahold's Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. Linden's Kettyle Irish Foods subsidiary is to sell "sustainably-produced" bacon to Albert Heijn, founder Maurice Kettyle ...
Britain's pig producers are hopeful of a brighter future as Tesco follows Waitrose's example in entering a dedicated deal with farmers. Tesco announced today(November 8)that it would work directly with UK beef and pig farmers in a new ...
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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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Struggling Dutch meat firm Vion has announced a raft of job cuts across its European operations. In its latest set of results, the company said economic conditions and increased prices for raw materials hit the firm's profits last year. ...
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With prices on the increase and all the concerns about food security,anything that reduces farming costs and increases production must be good news.We all know LEDs cost less to run so it makes good financial sense to make the change.But ...
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