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Although there has been a drop in March, pork exports have increased in the first trimester of 2019 with respect to the same period in 2018.

The exports to China have recovered suddenly (+51% year-on-year), with 8,500 tonnes (carcass weight) sold to the north of Asia: 2,350 tonnes (carcass weight) more than in January 2018 (of which +1,950 tonnes in carcass weight sent to China.

These potential projects are necessary to satisfy the real demand of meat products in Cuba.

The USDA will verify if Brazilian pork and beef still fulfil the USA health requirements.

In a survey of more than a thousand pork kidney samples, none were found to have veterinary drugs at levels that even approached close to U.S. regulatory limits.

The seizure was in an effort to battle the spread of African swine fever, a contagious, deadly virus which has killed more than a million pigs in China.

With this political agreement, EU geographical indications can have improved protection at multilateral level.

Pork export volume came up just short of the record set in 2017 while value slipped 1 percent year-over-year.

In a seminar held in Beijing on February 21st, the European meat industry encouraged China to apply regionalization to the trade of meat from countries affected by diseases such as African swine fever.

Of the nine plants just authorised, nine produce pork and four fowl.

Organic does not appear to take off as quickly in further food products, such as beverages (excluding wine) and meat.

Over the year, a number of ‘industrial’ pigs in Ukraine went up by 2%.

The FAO Meat Price Index was up slightly, supported by higher prices of bovine and pig meat.