French pork producers have announced they will have a major protest next week Tuesday after having organised several smaller protests in the last couple of weeks.

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Administrators appointed to pig processor, GAD, are investigating all options to save the company

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Stéphane Le Foll sign health cooperation agreement that opens business opportunities for French food and agricultural sectors.

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French Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forest Stéphane Le Foll and Minister of State for the food Guillaume Garot have set out a development plan for the future for French poultry sector following a meeting with the poultry industry last week.

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A study has revealed the challenges of further processing pork with boar taint to overcome the smell.

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In the absence of any legal sanction, the French charcuterie industry federation FICT and the retailers' federation FCD have opposed proposals from the meat industry syndicate SNIV-SNCP to make country of origin labelling compulsory on pig meat and processed foods.

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According to animal scientists, farmers could further protect the environment by breeding chickens with larger digestive organs.

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The French Agriculture Ministry has set out a three pronged attack to restore confidence in the French pig meat sector, following a round table meeting with pig sector representatives, writes Chris Harris.

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Nucleus has successfully exported 450 pigs to Rushan Dongfa Pig Breeding Co. (Huanshan).

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After being investigated for horse meat, French meat business Spanghero this week found itself back in hot water.

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Production of beef and lamb fell five per cent in 2012 having a knock on effect on consumption, which fell two per cent, according to Bord Bia.

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), organiser of the conference, has received the full support of the European Commission, which has placed the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on top of its priority list.

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Production of beef and lamb fell 5 per cent in 2012 having a knock on effect on consumption, which fell 2 per cent.

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) organises the first Global Conference on the prudent use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine

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The rumpus in Europe over horsemeat sold as beef is bringing a bonanza for France’s 700 surviving horse butchers, who are suddenly piquing consumer curiosity after years of decline.

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SIMA exhibition, Paris.

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Opening the Salon International de l'Agriculture in Paris, the head of state declared: "These last few days have seen a lot of questions asked and, not to put it more strongly, fraud, because there was no labelling.

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According to BPEX's Export Bulletin for week 7, France reports that 2012 was a record year for pig prices.

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Billed as the largest farm show in France, the 50th International Agricultural Fair in Paris opened its doors to visitors on Saturday.

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A group of 10 delegates from supermarket chain Intermarché – the largest supermarket chain in Europe with 1,800 stores – and processor SVA Jean Rozé spent three days visiting processors, producers and butchers.

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The agriculture biotechnology giant Monsanto Company has been found guilty by a French court of chemically poisoning 47 year-old Paul Francois, a French grain farmer.

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The French government has allowed the company at the heart of the horsemeat scandal to restart part of its meat production operation.

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The French government has allowed the company at the heart of the horsemeat scandal to restart part of its meat production operation.

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Five French pig-slaughter companies were fined a total of 4.5 million euros ($6.1 million) for agreeing to reduce hog purchases from breeders with the goal of cutting prices they pay, France’s antitrust regulator said.

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British Government "Cover Up" continues as we report; Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) said six horses slaughtered in the UK that tested positive for the drug phenylbutazone were exported to France and have entered the human food chain.

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The French Government did in 4 days what Defra, LMCNI could not do in 5 weeks as we told you they would, as they charged 3 men today over the horsemeat fiasco.

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France on Thursday pinned much of the blame for Europe's horse scandal on a French firm that allegedly sold 750 tonnes of horsemeat as beef that ended up in millions of ready-to-eat meals sold across the continent.

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French meat processing company Spanghero knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef, the French government has said.

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Around 170 delegates from the pig production chain attended a conference in St Brieuc, France, in early October, on the imminent ban on castration in the European Union.

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The meat industry organisation has written to the president of Inaporc calling on the agency to defend the words "born, raised, slaughtered and processed" following by the country of origin on labelling of pork products when it is making representations in Europe.

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One of the food companies at the centre of the horse meat controversy is considering legal action against its suppliers. Findus is looking into legal action as an internal investigation "strongly suggests" the contamination "was not accidental".

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According to a Feb. 9, 2013, CNN report, France’s Findus is planning to file a legal complaint on Monday against the unnamed Romanian business responsible for the horsemeat scandal.

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Another meat-based product containing – in some cases 100 percent horsemeat instead of ground beef – has added to the challenges faced by the Ireland’s Food Safety Authority, which is already looking into unlabeled horsemeat products sold by two processors.

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The European Union may drive a recovery in world wheat production in 2013-14, the United Nations said, even as it lifted by 20m tonnes estimates for the latest global grains harvest too.

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Senior government ministers have welcomed news that Japan will lift beef age limits to include cattle under 31 months of age, the Council of Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Affairs Ministry of Health confirmed this week.

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A delegation of Egyptian food safety inspectors are touring French meat processing plants this week as part of the process for the renewal of beef exports to Egypt.

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The FNSEA said that the Commission has decided to suddenly halve the refunds which is just adding to the burden on the sector that has seen the financial crisis of the Doux group and the decommissioning of some plants that has been decided by the courts.

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Societe Generale, one of the most bearish commentators on crops ahead of the autumn drop in prices, renewed a forecast of falling corn futures, saying that demand from livestock feeders was not as resilient as it appeared.

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French farmers held protests across the country on Wednesday, including a pre-dawn street blockade near the farm ministry in Paris, to attack what they see as burdensome environmental regulations linked to European Union targets on water quality.

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The European Union's plan to cut in half export subsidies for poultry meat have raised concerns about the viability of some French poultry firms, according to Reuters.

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A novel software tool will help pig farms better determine what are the effects of the nutrition fed at their swine farms.

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In an article published in Frontiers in Microbiology on the 20th of December, she explores using a next-generation real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system to discover specific gene targets that indicate the presence of dangerous foodborne pathogens.

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With the cost of feed soaring, a period of high French pork prices coming to an end and welfare and environmental constraints, farmers and analysts in the core French pig farming region of Brittany expect their sector to downsize severely in the coming months.

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With the cost of feed soaring, a period of high French pork prices coming to an end and welfare and environmental constraints, farmers and analysts in the core French pig farming region of Brittany expect their sector to downsize severely in the coming months.

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Weltec Biopower have signed a contract with a French based project developer Methaneo to build a a plant in western France , which will use chicken maure to produce electricity to feed the French grid.

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Irish Beef has been selected as a key ingredient by the organisers of the prestigious French culinary competition, Bocuse d’Or, writes Declan Fennell, Meat Division, Bord Bia – Irish Food Board.

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Between May 2011 and May 2012, there was a decline of about one per cent in the French pig herd.

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As part of the preparation of the European Council on 22 and 23 November 2012, the President of the European Council circulated a summary of the annual financial framework meeting to member states.

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French government eyes ailing pig sector with concern.

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In mid October, Dawn Meats exhibited at SIAL, Europe's premier food fair which welcomed visitors from around the world to Paris.

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Brasil Foods is to take steps to recover assets connected to the pig production activities of the French company Doux in Brazil.

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An outbreak of brucellosis has been reported in South East France, affecting four mountain goats (Alpine ibex).

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French politicians who will play a key role in deciding the shape of the next Common Agricultural Policy have unveiled their thoughts on how their farmers should receive support.

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With a ban on gestation-sow stalls set to become law on Jan. 1, EU hog producers are warning that pork prices will rise significantly as the production mandate is expected to force many farmers out of business.

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Over 100 million animals were sacrificed for Eid Al Adha alone on 26 October this year. English Farmers miss out on £Millions of pounds @ SIAL Paris 2012.

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OIE launches pilot project to design efficient control methods for Peste des Petits Ruminants, a devastating disease of goats and sheep.

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Dan Halstrom, U.S. Meat Export Federation senior vice president for marketing and communications, is in Paris this week for SIAL 2012 (commonly pronounced see-AL), one of the world’s largest food exhibitions.

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Europe's pregnant pigs will be happier next year but pork eaters will pay more and some breeders will go out of business as new porcine welfare rules compound the spiraling cost of the cereals for animal feed.

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The French Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forestry show a 10 per cent decline in finished cattle slaughterings during August compared to a year earlier, writes Bernadette Byrne from the Paris Office, Bord Bia – Irish Food Board.

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