New Zealand’s meat exports are being blocked at the border into China with authorities apparently rejecting them because of a name change on an export certificate.

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Bird flu, tainted pork and rat sold as mutton. It’s a wonder China’s 1.3 billion people don’t all go vegan.

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McDonald's Corp, the world's biggest restaurant chain, said on Tuesday that it will open at least 200 Mcafes this year in China.

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Chinese meat group Zhongpin cited "intense" competition in the country's pork sector after it posted falling first-quarter profits and muted sales growth.

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Earlier this week, reports out of China suggested that tainted meat was sold to Yum! Brands ( YUM) franchise Little Sheep. The company was steadfast in its denials, and today it was vindicated.

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Cannot get enough Australian beef and mutton

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Shanghai authorities say they are investigating meat from a wholesaler whose records show it supplies a restaurant chain owned by Yum Brands Inc. YUM +1.20% —the latest food-safety scare to hit the fast-food company

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In China three farmers have been detained due to operating an illegal business of selling meat from diseased pigs.

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Eight Chinese ships entered the territorial waters of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands on a single day last week, while 40 Chinese military planes flew nearby. China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported this as a response to Japan.

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The Chinese government and military have targeted U.S. government computer systems for intrusion, the Pentagon said Monday in a more direct accusation of cyber espionage than the U.S. has made in the past.

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The Chinese Ministry of Public Security recently released the top 10 meat safety-related cases uncovered this year. These cases have created a crisis of confidence among consumers and also have exposed loopholes in the meat-safety supervision system, says an article on cnhan.com.

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CommAuction S.A, a Uruguay-based High Tech International Food Auction Company will unveil their revolutionary Internet Site at SIAL CHINA 2013, to be held at the New Shanghai Expo Exhibition Center May 7-9, 2013.

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The Chinese government will soon launch a pork purchase plan to stabilise depressed prices and shore up farmers' confidence, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Friday (10 May).

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Zhongpin has reported higher revenues and lower net income for the first quarter of 2013. The company reports the increase in cost of sales was consistent with but considerably lower than increase in sales revenues.

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Tyson Foods chicken operations in China have taken a hard hit as fears of the new H7N9 bird flu have driven Chinese consumers away from poultry, but the company is continuing to set itself up to produce a biosecure supply of chicken products once flu illnesses abate and consumers return to eating poultry.

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Chinese media have reported that three suspects have been arrested for processing and selling some 40 metric tons of pork derived from hog carcasses that were found by the side of the road or collected from farmers, and from diseased hogs that were deemed unfit for consumption.

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The tide of agricultural exports from New Zealand to China could begin to balance out under a new bilateral agreement to promote agricultural cooperation, the head of New Zealand's farming industry body told Xinhua Tuesday.

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Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton.

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A total of 904 people in China were captured during a three-month campaign involving meat-related crimes such as producing fake beef and mutton made from rat and fox, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Thursday.

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Developments and expansion within the upper classes and the restaurant and hotel sector have led to beef imports leaping 1,346 per cent since 2008.

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Developments and expansion within the upper classes and the restaurant and hotel sector have led to beef imports leaping 1,346 per cent since 2008.

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Prices were more than 18 per cent down compared to prices on 11 February, the first day after Spring Festival.

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Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.

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As influenzas go, the H7N9 virus at first seemed relatively benign: in late March, the Chinese government reported that three individuals had contracted the illness, and that two had died.

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Poultry is safe to eat provided it is properly handled and cooked, according to a joint study group on Monday.

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In the wake of the H79N Avian influenza outbreak affecting humans in China, many countries have taken measures to close their borders to Chinese poultry product imports.

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More than half of the 87 patients infected with the new H7N9 avian influenza virus in China had no contact with poultry, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as health investigators continued to search for the source of the outbreak.

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As of 22 April 2013 (18:00CET), the National Health and Family Planning Commission notified WHO of an additional two laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus.

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A notice recently released by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China suggests that improving national food safety standards will be a major task for government authorities this year (China Daily).

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Retail price of poultry and eggs fell further last week, with chicken dropping one per cent compared the previous week, and saw a cumulative drop 2.5 per cent for five weeks.

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A new front in the battle for global beef markets is emerging from the pacific, with Australian producers benefiting this week from the launch of a series of measures from China.

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Chinese scientists have discovered that a poultry wet market was likely the source for human infections with the avian influenza A H7N9 virus, and discovered the conditions under which the virus could eventually mutate to human-to-human transmissions.

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Even though a new strain of Type A H7N9 influenza that reportedly originated in a live bird market in China has infected more than 100 Chinese people, consumers can be confident in eating properly cooked poultry meat, according to the International Poultry Council (IPC).

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It began in late February when an 87-year-old man started coughing up phlegm.

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An eight-year surge in soybean imports by China, the biggest buyer, may come to an end this year as feed consumption drops following a bird-flu outbreak and the discovery of thousands of dead pigs floating in a river.

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Chinese consumers are eating less meat following news of the latest avian flu outbreak, but the longer-term impact on demand for imported soybeans is less clear.

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According to the Louisville, Kentucky-based fast food giant, its same-store sales in March declined an estimated 13 per cent in China.

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According to the official reports sent to the OIE by the Chinese Veterinary Authorities, poultry that have tested positive for the presence of influenza virus A(H7N9) and are also suspected of being the source of reported human cases, do not show any visible signs of disease, making it very difficult to detect this virus in poultry.

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Yum Brands Inc. said the avian flu outbreak in China is having a "significant, negative impact" on sales at its KFC stores there.

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A top agricultural official said Friday that the government should support poultry farms that are up to quarantine standards to prevent them from being financially devastated by the H7N9 bird flu epidemic.

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The H7N9 avian influenza outbreak that has killed 20 people and infected more than 100 people in four provinces in China is also wreaking havoc on the poultry industry on a national scale, according the official Xinhua news agency.

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The losses incurred by poultry-related businesses in China as a result of the H79N outbreak has reached more than 13 billion yuan (€1.6 billion euro), estimates provided by the National Poultry Industry Association show.

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Yum Brands (YUM), the parent company of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC, has had tough couple of months.

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China's poultry industry lost 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in the week after the H7N9 bird flu virus began infecting humans, state-run media said on Monday as they sought to discourage panic.

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Wheat futures advanced for a second day as China, the world’s biggest consumer, bought about 960,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat after prices plunged 30 percent from a four-year high in July. Corn and soybeans rose.

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China, Japan and Korea held the first round of trilateral free trade agreement (CJKFTA) negotiations in Seoul, Korea last month.

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China's agriculture authority has expanded the monitoring for the H7N9 strain of flu to pigs in order to better understand the virus that had infected at least 33 people by Wednesday, 10 April.

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China, the world’s biggest consumer of wheat, bought almost 1 million metric tons from the U.S. as prices slumped 30 percent from a four-year high reached in July, state-owned researcher grain.gov.cn said.

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CITIES in eastern China where the H7N9 bird flu outbreak has killed six people are moving to prevent the virus spreading by banning the live poultry trade as well as culling fowl.

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The Chinese government has started to purchase frozen pork and add it to reserves to stabilize prices, which have slumped for three months, the country's top economic planning agency said Sunday, 7 April.

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All live poultry trade should be suspended and poultry markets shut down temporarily in the capital city of east China's H7N9 bird flu-afflicted Jiangsu Province, according to a government statement.

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Another person died from a new strain of bird flu in China on Thursday, state media said, bringing to 10 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, as a U.N. body said it was concerned the virus could spread across borders in poultry.

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The Chinese veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a farm located in Xinjiang, affecting cattle populations.

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Residents of a Chinese city were ordered to cull all their poultry as authorities stepped up attempts to halt the spread of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, state media reported Thursday.

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The H7N9 avian influenza has been attributed to genetic reassortment of wild birds and chickens from east China acoording to a top Chinese research lab.

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Bird flu reaches Beijing; first case outside east China which has reported 51 infections

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China bird-flu outbreak raises concerns about poultry production, animal-feed demand

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The world's largest retailer by sales will open 30 new stores in China and invest nearly 500 million yuan ($80.1 million) to remodel existing ones in the country.

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Responding to the occurrence of the A(H7N9) influenza virus in China requires strong biosecurity measures, FAO has said. Unlike other influenza strains, including highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, this new virus is hard to detect in poultry because the novel virus causes little to no signs of disease in animals.

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Shares of YUM! Brands (YUM) have been hard hit by China’s bird flu outbreak, which has cleared customers from hundreds of its KFC fast food outlets.

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