Minerva, a Brazil-based producer of beef, has entered into an agreement with meat processor BRF to acquire latter's beef division Newco Diviso de Bovinos. Under the terms of the agreement, Minerva will acquire assets and slaughtering and ...
Octal, a Oman-based supplier of rigid food packaging material, will supply recyclable DPET/PE trays to Saudi Arabian dairy food firm Almarai's poultry product line, Alyoum. Almarai will replace its traditional polypropylene / polyethylene ...
Tags: DPET/PE Trays, Packaging
Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, has inaugurated a $250m poultry operation in Lai’an, Anhui province, China, as part of its efforts to support the modernization of agriculture and food safety in the country. The project ...
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HKScan, a Finnish manufacturer of meat foods and products, has opened its expanded Tabasalu facility, which will handle slaughter, cutting, deboning and processing of poultry meat operations for the Baltic region. Starting from 2014, the ...
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has confirmed the equivalence of the food safety inspection system for processed poultry in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement will ...
Tags: Poultry Processing System, Food
US agribusiness company Cargill is set to upgrade its poultry processing facility in Saraburi, Thailand with an investment of THB300m ($10m). The project, which is expected to be completed by July 2014, includes upgrading plant's 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 Hualien County, Taiwan over fears of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N2 and H5N3 avian ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, Food
The Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (GDCIQ) has suspended export of poultry products from certain areas to Hong Kong over a suspected case of H7 sub-type avian influenza (AI) in a poultry sample taken from a market ...
Prices of poultry products in China could rise sharply as early as next month as the waning H7N9 virus helps consumers regain confidence in poultry meat and eggs, experts said. Since late March, authorities have closed many poultry ...
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 ...
Tags: Agriculture, 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
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has urged producers and backyard flock owners to practice biosecurity in the wake of the H7N9 avian influenza virus that has been linked to human illnesses in China. According to the agency, the ...
Officials from Unite the union are meeting Moy Park management today (March 20) in a bid to save 300 jobs at the firm's Wisbech poultry products factory in Cambridgeshire. Union officials and Moy Park management are meeting today to ...
Tags: poultry products, poultry products factory, poultry jobs
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 3/18/2013 2:51:40 PM Family-owned Foster Farms today announced last week that its fresh chicken products have earned humane certification from American Humane Association. The ...
US private equity firm TPG Capital has entered into an agreement to acquire Australia's leading poultry processor Inghams Enterprises for approximately A$880m ($901m). TPG Capital overcame competition from several other bidders in the ...