There has been a notable reduction in the presence of campylobacter in chickens on sale in the UK, with only 0.8% of them testing positive for the highest level of campylobacter (over 1,000 colony forming units per gramme, or cfu/g), as compared with 3.8% in March 2018, according to the results of a survey published last week by the UK Food Standards Agency.

South Korea has agreed to allow trade restrictions only at the state level instead of country level in the event of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) detection in the US.

Since October the US Department of Agriculture has been purchasing US-produced and -processed agricultural products including milk and pork under a "USDA Foods" programme, which has become a big boost to agricultural producers and processors.

US pork export value declined in July, reflecting the impact of retaliatory duties imposed by Mexico and China, even if beef exports posted another near-record month.

Diamond V has appointed Stacia Sonderman as its regional sales manager for the US market of Minnesota.

From 26 in January, US refusal of entry lines of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics went down to zero in February, according to a news release by the Southern Shrimp Alliance, an organisation of shrimp fishermen and processors in the eight warmwater shrimp-producing states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.

China's pork producer, WH Group, has disclosed a 1% increase in net profit for the first half of 2017 - a disappointing result dashing analysts' expectations, the South China Morning Post reported.