Month: August 2014
Farmers around the world who supply Nestlé with dairy products, meat, poultry and eggs will have to comply with tighter animal welfare standards from now on.…
Pig farmers appear to be gearing up for increased production in 2015 according to Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) economics analyst Iain Macdonald. While acknowledging there has…
Polish farmers are protesting in Brussels today in a bid to gain increased compensation to help offset the impact of the Russian imports ban. The country’s…
BPEX has decided to postpone its regional roadshow butchers programme for the remainder of this year. The organisation said the decision had been taken as part…
The NPA has again expressed its opposition to live imports of pigs from countries with PEDv after it emerged that JSR has recently imported a number…
Despite the challenges of a short week ahead, the meat inspectors’ partial strike and plenty of cheap foreign pigmeat on the market, spot bacon quotes held…
Food businesses in the State of Victoria, Australia, risk being fined the equivalent of £29,699 if they’re found to be supplying swill, or food scraps that…
The creation of a standalone food standards body in Scotland has won support from the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee, albeit with a fresh request for “greater…