UK-based pork processor Karro Food plans to shut down slaughter and butchery operations at Wiveliscombe site in Somerset, a move which will result in 113 job losses. The company stated that the development is part of a strategic review of ...
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US-based meat processing firm Pilgrim's Pride is set to shut down its cooking and cold storage facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee within the next two weeks, eliminating 200 jobs at the facilities. The planned closure is a part of the ...
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BRF has announced that it is set to make its first pork shipment to Japan, which will make BRF the first Brazilian company to export pork to Japan. The initial shipment includes filets and shoulder of pork, produced at the Campos Novos ...
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Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), a swine virus that can cause death in piglets, has been identified in two hog farms in North Carolina. The virus has been rapidly spreading across several states in the US since it was first ...
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Like horses to the slaughterhouse PETA drones a trophy prize for US hunters Biggest wine hoax in history reveals trade secrets A substitute for the slaughterhouse; an alternative to the abattoir? Instead of killing cattle with a stunbolt ...
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Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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Operations at Ireland-based B&F Meats have been suspended after the regulators from Irish Department of Agriculture found that the company shipped horsemeat, which was labeled as beef, to the Czech Republic. The regulators stated that the ...
The horsemeat scandal has caught big retailers “with the their underwear down” and it was still too early to predict the full implications of the crisis, a leading food policy commentator has told FoodManufacture.co.uk. ...
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Swiss meat processing company Bell Group has booked an increase in full-year profits, despite what it claims has been a "demanding" market environment. In the 12 months to the end of December, net profit climbed 5.9% to CHF75.8m ...
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has insisted the traceability systems in place to track ingredients down the supply chain are proving robust as it works to uncover how undeclared horse meat made its way onto frozen beef products. "We are ...
Russia meat producer Cherkizovo has booked an increase in full-year sales volumes in two of its divisions. In the 12 months to the end of December, sales volumes in its poultry unit climbed 23% to around 319,210 tonnes of slaughter ...
Brazilian beef group JBS has completed the acquisition of local indebted beef processor Independencia Group. JBS, which announced last April it wanted to buy the business, today (1 February) confirmed it had concluded the deal made for ...
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The London-based firm described its storage box as a “greener” alternative to the cardboard box. It said that it is selling its Noboxes via a partnership headed by former Wall Street financier Thomas Hellman. Hellman, chairman ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency has announced that horses that have been treated with the drug phenylbutazone or bute are not allowed to enter the food chain. The agency will conduct checks in slaughterhouses in order to ensure that horses ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency has admitted that it found traces of a cancer-causing drug in horse meat exported to Europe in 2012, but there is no link to the recent cases of horse DNA in burgers. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said today ...
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