The United States Department of Agriculture will relax a decades-long ban on the importation of many cured-pork products from some regions of Italy starting May 28, greatly increasing the number and variety of salumi in markets and restaurants here.

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USDA ruling opens door to Italian meat imp USDA said Friday certain regions of Italy are now free of a swine disease and on May 28 will end a decades-long ban on imports of their cured-pork meats.

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APHIS has declared six areas of Italy to be free of swine vesicular disease, opening the way for exports of Italian pig meat products to the US again.

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According to a new study, trained tasters were able to distinguish chicken from commercial birds reared under standard and organic conditions and slow-growing organic birds, while consumer preferences were affected by the label information.

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Italy and Greece are the last two EU countries still defying the ban on conventional cages, with an estimated 20 million birds kept in illegal systems.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said the F.A.O. Food Price Index was flat in January, finishing at 209.8 and ending three straight months of declines.

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One year after the EU-wide ban on barren battery cages came into force, Compassion in World Farming has discovered Italy and Greece are undermining Europe's claim to leadership in animal welfare.

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Italy and Greece are the last two EU countries still defying the ban on conventional cages, with an estimated 20 million birds kept in illegal systems.

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U.S. fastfood giant McDonald's believes recession-hit Italy will be one of its higher-growth areas in the coming decade and is opening more than 100 new restaurants to convert pizza-lovers to its burgers.

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On the 1 January 2014, Opas and Assocom will join the organisation of pig producers (OPAS).

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Big Dutchman welcomes a new partner to its international team of sales representatives: Gong SpA, based in the Northern Italian city of Ghedi, will in future be responsible for consultation, distribution and service regarding Big Dutchman pig equipment products in Italy.

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Although temperature played a more important role than the gases in influencing the bacterial survival in eggs, 100 per cent carbon dioxide packaging has potential for the maintenance of egg quality during transport, retail and domestic storage, according to new research from the University of Bologna.

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Europeans enjoy among the highest standards of food safety in the world, and together we will preserve and build on that proud record.

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Farmers, NGOs, students and local activists have gathered to denounce the industry-capture of our food safety system that EFSA plays a key role in.

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Representatives from Compassion in World Farming, accompanied by “protesting pigs”, have visited the Italian State Tourist Board in London to deliver a giant postcard, as a warning for Italy’s Tourism Minister Piero Gnudi.

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The XXI European Symposium on the Quality of Poultry Meat and the XV European Symposium on the Quality of Eggs and Egg Products will be held at Centro Congressi Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo, Italy, on 15–19 September, 2013.

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Italy’s swine breeding herd is having severe difficulties meeting the 2013 welfare requirements for group housing for sows.

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McDonald's has sued the city of Milan for 24 million euros in damages over being kicked out of a tourist-packed shopping arcade, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, after the U.S. fastfood chain had rented the space for 20 years.

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During the presentation of his annual report Mr Jan Odink, president of the Association of Poultry processors and Poultry trade in the EU, a.v.e.c., expressed his worries about the US$4.9 billion support the Brazilian pig and poultry industry receives to survive the crisis resulting from the high feed prices.

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The Italian swine business has been industrialising rapidly in the first decade of this century.

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The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index averaged 213 points in August, unchanged from July.

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Italian farmers are reported to have suffered a billion euros in crop damage from drought.

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The Vatican is alarmed at what it sees as the erosion of religious freedom in the United States, warning of a threat of “unprecedented gravity” to the Catholic Church’s “liberty and public moral witness.”

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Global health and agriculture agencies are working together to destroy dangerous rinderpest virus samples stored in laboratories and calling on countries to comply with a global moratorium on research that involves using live rinderpest virus in labs.

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More than 250 veterinarians and poultry production specialists from 36 countries in Europe, the Middle East, North and South America and Africa participated in the Merial Avian Forum in Italy earlier this month, to share updates on avian immunosuppressive diseases and novel vector vaccine technology.

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A hard look should be taken throughout the world at speculation on the financial markets and the impact on food-price volatility, said José Graziano da Silva, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) director-general, on July 6 during a debate on the issue at FAO headquarters.

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A new Foreign Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)-led partnership is tasked with improving how the environmental impacts of the livestock industry are measured and assessed.

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A scientific statement has just been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as requested by the European Commission that considers the latest research on animal clones and their offspring for food production purposes.

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Traditional poultry meat inspection may not be enough to fully address the most relevant biological hazards to public health regarding Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp. and ESBL/AmpC gene-carrying bacteria, according to the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) scientific opinion published June 29.

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The earthquakes that struck the Emilia-Romagna region last month, while having a disastrous impact on the cheese industry, appears to have left the region’s Prosciutto di Parma industry unaffected.

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The international group Adfood, formed by brand names: Roser (Hygiene & handling equipment), Ogalsa (Injectors), Cato (Machinery for Sausage Production) and RMT (turnkey projects, production lines, technological consultancy on projects & processing lines) has presented the following technological innovations at the last BTA exhibition in Barcelona:

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Poultry meat production is forecast to increase by 1.8 percent from the 2011 estimate to 103.5 million metric tons, according to the biannual Food Outlook released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

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Accademia Mediterranea per l'Agroecologia e la Vita (AMA la Vita)

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La prima ed essenziale differenza fra le sostanze tossiche e genotossiche è che, mentre qualunque sostanza, nessuna esclusa, può diventare tossica con l'aumento della dose, nessuna sostanza che non sia genotossica può diventarlo con l'aumento della dose, dato che la genotossicità richiede la possibilita di reagire con il DNA, e ciò dipende esclusivamente dalla struttura chimica del composto [1.2.2].

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Aviagen Italia recently held a broiler seminar for customers in Bologna, Romagna Region of Italy, with presentations from a number of key Aviagen experts. The event attracted over 85 attendees representing all players in the Italian poultry industry.

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MARR: supply agreement with Starwood Italy confirmed

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MARR: The Board of Directors approves the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2011

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Mention the Italian city of Milan and it instantly conjures up an image of a city with breathtaking architecture and a stylish population dressed in the latest designer fashions.

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The Italian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Newcastle disease in Tuscany.

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Bill Gates announced nearly $200m in grants to reinvest in projects aimed at helping smallholder farmers as he called on the big UN food agencies to work together to create a global productivity target for small farmers.

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Organised crime in Italy controls agricultural and food businesses worth 12.5 billion euros ($16 billion) a year, or 5.6 percent of all criminal operations in the country, according to a parliamentary investigation presented on Thursday.

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At the Italian island of Sardina, four new outbreaks of African Swine Fever have been confirmed in December 2011 and January 2012, Dutch agricultural newspaper Boerderij Vandaag reports. At the island only, the disease is endemic.

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In December, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Food Price Index decreased 2.4 percent, or five points from November. Totaling 211 points, the Index was 11.3 percent (27 points) below its peak in February. The FAO Meat Price Index, which averaged 179 points, was down slightly vs. November.

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Italian researchers studying Listeria monocytogenes contamination in the Parma ham production process have concluded that drying is the most effective treatment for discouraging L. monocytogenes contamination.

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Livestock farms should use natural resources more efficiently to meet ever-growing demand for meat and dairy products in a way friendly to the environment, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.

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Cargill has completed its acquisition of the Italian animal nutrition company (July 15), Raggio di Sole Mangimi S.p.A, having received antitrust approval from the Italian Authority.

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A conference which focuses on the growth, sustainability and challenges of the global dairy production and trade industry, will be held by the International Dairy Federation later this year.

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Feed costs increase by 65% on Italian feedlots At €2.65 per day, feed costs on Italian feedlots have increased by 65% over the past two years. According to Professor Carlo Rossi, Department of Veterinary Science and Technology for Food Safety at the University of Milan, Italian feedlots are currently under severe financial pressure; losing from €100 to €150 per finished animal.

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John Keane, the manager of the Milan Office ofBord Bia-Irish Food Board said that earlier in June the EU’s antitrust body gave the go ahead to the French dairy group to buy Parmalat saying that it didn’t uncover any antitrust concerns.

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China is ready to join hands with countries in the world to work for the rights and interests of rural women, their well-being and agricultural and rural development, China's Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said here on Monday.

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Fiera Milano and the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK are pleased to invite you to take part of the buyers’ delegation at HOST 2011, to be held from 21st – 25th October 2011 in Milan, Italy.

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According to a new report, New Market Research Report: Italy Agribusiness Report Q3 2011 from Business Monitor International (BMI), impressive gains are forecast for some of Italy's key agricultural industries, with production of poultry, wheat and corn expected to be out-performers.

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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have issued a joint statement providing an update on the search for the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe

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Italy’s first-ever ‘halal’ supplier has opened for business in Italy’s northern city of Bologna, selling meals prepared according to Islamic principles to restaurants and canteens in Italy and abroad.

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Italy is very keen to enhance its tourism, trade and investment relations with the UAE, Ambassador to the UAE Giorgio Starace said.

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Food prices remained virtually steady in April after falling in March following eight months of successive increases, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced. Although the FAO Food Price Index averaged 232 points in April, which was not much different from March, it was still 36 percent above April 2010 and only 2 percent below its peak in February 2011.

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This year’s edition of Suinicola, the Italian pig fair in the city of Reggio Emila, Italy, was particularly well visited by breeding companies from Denmark, Stuart Lumb reports.

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Salmonella cases in the European Union in humans decreased by 17% in 2009, marking five consecutive years of decreases, according to the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) annual study on zoonoses and foodborne outbreaks in the EU for 2009. Between 2008 and 2009, the number of laying hen flocks infected with Salmonella also decreased by 9%, the study shows.

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JBS S.A. said Friday it took control of 100 percent of Rigamonti Salumificio, one of the 10 largest cured meat processors in Italy, as it terminated a joint venture with another Italian company.

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A joint opinion reviewing the latest available scientific information on possible links between Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) in animals and humans has been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). At present, the only TSE proven to be zoonotic (i.e. transmissible from animals to humans), remains Classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known in humans as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the findings in the opinion confirm.

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