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Porc.Wales website celebrates Welsh pork
23 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Food, tourism and hospitality businesses in Wales are being encouraged to source local pork by a new website, Porc.Wales...
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Quorn recalls two batches of its Chef’s Selection Meat Free Beef Steaks
8 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Quorn has recalled two batches of its Chef's Selection Meat Free Beef Steaks because the wrong product, containing allergens, has been packaged...
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FSA wins Judicial Review over beef carcass decision
6 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The FSA has won a Judicial Review brought against it by AIMS and Cleveland Meat Company Limited, a slaughterhouse operator based in Stockton on Tees...
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JBS USA Pork agrees to acquire Cargill’s pork business
2 July 2015 | By Victoria White
JBS USA Pork has agreed to acquire Cargill’s US pork business for $1.45 billion. Completion of the acquisition is subject to regulatory review and approval...
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Cargill appoints Mary Thompson to lead European poultry business
23 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Mary Thompson, president of Cargill Value Added Meats, has been appointed to lead Cargill’s European poultry business based in Hereford, England...
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Brazil’s JBS acquires Moy Park for US $1.5 billion
23 June 2015 | By Victoria White
JBS, currently the largest meat packager in the world, has acquired Moy Park from Marfrig in a deal valued at around US $1.5 billion...
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Superbug livestock-associated MRSA CC398 found in British pork
18 June 2015 | By Victoria White
The findings of a new study into retail meat have revealed livestock-associated MRSA CC398 (LA-MRSA CC398) in British pork...
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Scandi Standard signs agreement to acquire Lagerbergs
15 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scandi Standard, the largest producer of chicken in the Nordic Region with leading positions in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, is to acquire Lagerbergs...
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Danish Crown subsidiary KLS Ugglarps expected to take over a majority stake of Dalsjöfors Slakteri
26 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Danish Crown subsidiary KLS Ugglarps AB is expected to take over a majority stake in the Dalsjöfors Slakteri slaughterhouse later this year...
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FSA completes review of animal welfare standards in slaughterhouses
22 May 2015 | By Victoria White
FSA has completed a programme of unannounced inspections of all UK slaughterhouses to ensure they are meeting their obligations on animal welfare standards...
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BMPA launches updated Pork Scheme in the UK
29 April 2015 | By Victoria White
Following a major review of its pork and pork products quality standards, BMPA is launching its updated Pork Scheme on 1 May 2015...
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Mechanically separated meat and meat structure
23 April 2015 | By Kathy Groves, Manager – Microscopy & Food Innovation, Leatherhead Food Research
Mechanically separated meat (MSM), or mechanically recovered meat (MRM) is a topic of debate within the EU as to whether it should be considered as meat in Quantitative Ingredient Declarations (QUID) terms. The current regulatory position is that MSM cannot count towards the meat content and must be declared on…
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Carbon nanotube sensor detects rotting meat
16 April 2015 | By Victoria White
MIT chemists have devised a carbon nanotube sensor that can detect gases emitted by rotting meat, allowing consumers to determine if meat is safe to eat...
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NCBA Nutrition Scientist urges US officials to reconsider flawed recommendations that advise Americans to eat less meat
27 March 2015 | By Victoria White
NCBA Nutrition Scientist, Shalene McNeill, urges US officials to reconsider flawed recommendations that advise Americans to eat less meat...
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Nestlé reports progress on farm animal welfare
27 March 2015 | By Victoria White
Nestlé has reported progress on its 2014 targets for the responsible sourcing of dairy, meat, poultry and eggs as it works to improve animal welfare...
