A large majority of Americans continue to strongly support mandatory country of origin labelling for fresh meat and strongly favor requiring meat to be labeled with even more specific information about where the animals were born, raised and processed.

Chicken consumption among US consumers remains high although 2017 levels have moderated and returned to those seen a couple of years ago, results of a new research presented last week at the 2017 Chicken Marketing Summit showed.

Global poultry meat consumption is set to overtake pork, traditionally the world's most consumed animal protein, according to the latest OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook.

South Korea is set to import eggs from Thailand to ease a shortage following its worst-ever bird-flu outbreak.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of assets of Happy Hen Egg Farms, Inc., relating to their commercial production, processing, distribution and sale of shell eggs business.

The USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) said it is again increasing its presence at the upcoming Gulfood show in Dubai with a two-level, 572-square-meter pavilion.

After more than doubling year-on-year to 1.6 million tonnes in 2016, China's pork imports have started to slow down. They fell by around one third on a year earlier in the second quarter this year, which is the first time since the end of 2014 that quarterly imports have not increased on the year, according to AHDB Pork.

Brazilian pork exports in the first half of 2017 were 2% lower than year-earlier levels, caused in part by the tainted-meat scandal, which broke out in March.

EU pig meat production this year is forecast to fall 0.6% from last year to 23.4 million tonnes carcass weight equivalent (cwe), pushing up prices, according to the latest (Summer 2017) short-term outlook report by the European Commission.

The Philippines has opened its market to UK beef, which now joins pork, poultry, lamb and dairy on the list of UK food and drink shipped to the Southeast Asian country.

American beef producers expressed disappointment over Japan's announcement that it is increasing the tariff on frozen beef imports from the US to 50% for a period of eight months starting August 2017.

Around 20 Chinese and US enterprises signed Thursday, July 13, agricultural transaction contracts worth $5.012 billion, under which Chinese enterprises will import 12.53 million tonnes of soybean and 371 tonnes of pork and beef from the US companies.

Global prices of cereal and dairy commodities, besides that of sugar, rose in July, driving the food price index for that month to increase for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said.

A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has hit a commune in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai, the communal authorities said on Thursday, Aug. 3, Xinhua reported.

The Philippines' meat imports in the first six months decreased almost 13% to 280,269.056 tonnes from 322,013.273 tonnes a year ago, latest data from the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) showed, according to the Business Mirror.

Norway's seafood export volume in July (138,000 tonnes) was 4% lower than a year before, but value, at NOK6.7 billion (US$841.54 million), increased 2% (or by NOK 115 million), according to the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC).

New Zealand's seafood exports are predicted to hit a record NZ$2 billion (US$1.46 billion) annually by 2020, according to the latest situation and outlook report recently issued by the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland's Seafood Development Agency, bared on Wednesday, July 19, the eight finalists for the BIM Seafood Retail Business Awards 2018.

JBT Corporation has acquired Avure Technologies, Inc. for US$57 million, before post-close adjustments.

From cooking and frying, freezing and chilling to portioning and sorting, weighing and grading, JBT has been with customers right down the line for more than 50 years.

The Meyn Rapid Breast Deboner M 4.0 is the plug-and-play version of Meyn's widely installed automatic Rapid Plus breast deboner.