The consumer price index (CPI) for beef last year rose 19.1 per cent compared to 2011, ranking at the top of CPI growth rates among all food items.

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Markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong pared earlier steep losses on Monday after worries about a new strain of avian flu drove both indices to fresh lows for 2013.

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Speaking to the media, Mr Leung said he will visit one of the biggest hospitals in Hong Kong, Princess Margaret Hospital, the Hospital Authority and the Center for Health Protection Wednesday to inspect their preventative measures against the bird flu H7N9.

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Quality beef, lamb and pork are to be featured at a major trade show taking place in Hong Kong from 7 to 10 May.

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China Yurun Food Group has announced a loss of HK$611,107 for the financial year ending in December compared to a profit of HK$1.8 billion in the previous year.

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Shippers and shipping lines both need to raise their game if global container supply chains are not to be habitually subject to wildly fluctuating service levels. This was a key take-away from Day 1 of the TOC Container Supply Chain Asia conference being held in Hong Kong, on 12-14 March.

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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (February 19)

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an immediate notification on 29 January.

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Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health, Ko Wing-man promised on Tuesday to review and investigate the monopoly in fresh beef imports.

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HONG KONG - Secretary of State Owen Paterson is leading a delegation from the British beef industry to Hong Kong next week as work continues towards the "normalisation" of trade with the UK.

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Secretary of State Owen Paterson is leading a delegation from the British beef industry to Hong Kong next week as work continues towards the “normalisation” of trade with the UK.

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Officials in Hong Kong will begin administering 10 million doses of a new vaccine designed to protect local poultry from a mutated strain of the H5N1 bird flu before the end of the year.

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China Yurun Food Group Limited ("Yurun Food" or the "Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") (SEHK: 1068), a leading vertically-integrated meat-product processor and supplier in China, announced today its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2012 (the "Period").

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Yurun revenue down 23%: €1.3 billion for H1 2012

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On 5 July, the Hong Kong Government (HKG) confirmed that the H5N1 virus was detected on a swab sample collected from a bird cage holding an Oriental magpie robin at a pet ship in the bird market.

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The outbreaks affected both wild and domestic birds.

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Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS), part of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), released the findings of its food safety report for May.

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received Follow-up Report No. 18 on 22 June 2012.

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Hong Kong health authority said that a two-year-old boy has been confirmed with H5N1 Influenza A and urged the public not to panic.

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EBLEX has helped secure the revival of bone-in beef exports from the UK to Hong Kong.

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The import of poultry products, including poultry eggs and frozen poultry, from northeastern Liaoning province on the Chinese mainland has resumed, the Center for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China announced Thursday.

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The import of poultry products, including poultry eggs and frozen poultry, from northeastern Liaoning province on the Chinese mainland has resumed, the Center for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China announced Thursday.

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In recent years, fast-casual restaurant chain Fairwood has been featuring more U.S. grain-fed beef entrées at its Hong Kong locations.

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Hong Kong has suspended imports of poultry products from Liaoning province on the mainland, Reuters has reported.

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H1N1 was detected in Hong Kong’s slaughterhouse during regular influenza virus surveillance for pigs in Hong Kong’s slaughterhouse.

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A dead house crow found in Hong Kong has tested positive for the H5 avian-influenza virus, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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The country's veterinary authorities have reported three new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Cheung Chau and Mongkok.

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Dr Thomas Sit, Chief Veterinary Officer/Assistant Director from Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

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The Fujian-based company is an integrated pork supplier, being involved in farming, slaughtering and the sale of pork.

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York Chow Yat-ngok, secretary for food and health, declared the resumption of live poultry sales from midnight on Wednesday after a panel of experts decided to downgrade the avian flu warning from "serious" to "alert".

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Health authorities in Hong Kong are urging residents to take steps to ensure personal hygiene, and the city remains on high alert following the bird-flu-related death of a man in mainland China.

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Two dead Black-headed gulls found in Tuen Mun and Lantau have tested positive for the H5 avian influenza virus in preliminary testing, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said yesterday (3 January), adding that further confirmatory tests are being conducted.

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Poultry imports from part of southern China remain banned in Hong Kong following the death of a man with the same strain of the disease to the version found in wild birds in the city.

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Due to an outbreak of bird flu in Hong Kong, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China has decided to suspend the supply of live poultry to Hong Kong for 21 days starting from Dec. 21.

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An intensive surveillance system is in place for all poultry farms, poultry markets, pet bird shops in Hong Kong following the death of a wild bird infected with H5N1, the OIE has reported.

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Hong Kong Slaughters 17,000 Birds, Halts Poultry Sales in Bird Flu Scare

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Chicken meat products supplier Sumpo Food Holdings (1089), which listed on the main board in January, will explore acquisition-led growth from 2013 onwards, a senior executive said.

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Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl, Thailand’s biggest producer of meat and animal feed, agreed to acquire 74 percent of a Hong Kong affiliate for $2.1 billion, gaining access to agricultural businesses in China and Vietnam.

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But the swine flu H3N2 is unlikely to cause a "major" human health risk, the Centre for Food Safety said.

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Ng Fung Hong said it was slashing its price to local retailers from a peak of HK$1,789 per 100 catties in June to HK$1,381.

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The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) of Hong Kong on Thursday conducted a field simulation exercise to review its preparedness in case a poultry culling operation is required in response to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the territory.

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Pork prices last week rose 0.1 percent from the previous week, the first rebound in August after a brief period of decline, reports the China Securities Journal, citing the Ministry of Commerce.

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Pork processor China Yurun Food Group Ltd. (1068.HK) said Monday it has suspended production at its Weinan Shengqin plant in Shaanxi province following media reports alleging it could be producing "problematic meat" there.

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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong announced that importing poultry meat and eggs from Japan (excluding Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Chiba Prefectures) will resume.

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Hong Kong has imported reduced volumes of beef for 12 consecutive months, with volumes during April falling 36% year-on-year. Imports during the calendar year to April 2011 fell 30%, to 36,748 tonnes swt, with falls registered in Brazilian, Uruguayan, Argentinean, Australian and New Zealand beef, despite an increase in imports from the US, Canada and China.

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Acting Secretary for Food and Health, Gabriel Leung, has consulted lawmakers on the proposed Imported Game, Meat, Poultry and Poultry Eggs Regulation to be made under the city's Food Safety Ordinance, according to an official source.

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The pork buyers' union has called on the government to open a live hog market to prevent monopolies from controlling pork prices, according to an official source.

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U.S. exports of high value food products to Hong Kong reached a record level of US$2.1 billion in 2010, consolidating Hong Kong’s position as the 4th largest market for these products after Canada, Mexico and Japan.

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The pork buyers' union has called on the government to open a live hog market to prevent monopolies from controlling pork prices, according to an official source.

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2010 brought record exports of U.S. food and agricultural products to Hong Kong, making it the fastest-growing market over the past three years, and re-export to China could be driving some of that growth. A new Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service

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A goose carcass from an unknown source was discovered on 1 March 2011 at the shore of Sham Shek Tsuen. The carcass was badly decomposed at the time of discovery.

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CFS announced the results of the regular influenza virus surveillance programme on pigs conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in the past three months (from November 2010 to January 2011) at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse. Seven samples tested positive for human swine influenza (pandemic H1N1) virus, but no significant genetic re-assortment of viruses was found.

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For the second time in less than a week, multiple foods imported from German have passed dioxin tests by Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety, known for its ability to sniff out chemicals in edibles.

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Hong Kong resumed accepting applications for poultry imports from Japan, with exception of Shimane Prefecture, where an outbreak of avian influenza H5 was reported earlier this month, regional authorities said on 28 December.

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COFCO may acquire another food brand, Zhangfei Beef, in Langzhong, Sichuan province after its acquisition of Baoning Vinegar which comes from the same city, reports National Business Daily, citing an informed source.

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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH), Hong Kong, China, has reported a new confirmed human case of H5N1 infection on 17 Nov 2010. The case is a 59-year-old female. She had onset of symptoms on 2 November and was admitted to hospital on 14 November. She was diagnosed to have pneumonia and is now in a critical condition.

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Hong Kong is experiencing its first case of human infection of H5N1 bird flu in seven years, prompting other countries to raise their alert levels. A 59-year-old woman tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after returning to Hong Kong from mainland China and remains hospitalised, said Hong Kong's Health Secretary York Chow.

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Hospitals have stepped up precautions against bird flu, and officers will carry out more random tests on imported poultry. The new measures are part of the government's response to the announcement that a woman had contracted bird flu. She remains in intensive care after catching the virus following a trip to the mainland.

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A World Health Organization official is defending the agency's actions during last year's swine flu outbreak. There have been accusations that WHO wasted governments' money and enriched pharmaceutical companies with its strong warnings about the virus.

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Hong Kong will resume importing fresh poultry products from South Korea today (7 September), lifting its four-month import ban following the outbreak of low pathogenic avian influenza here, the South Korean government official told Yonhap.

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