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Asia Pacific

Japan adopts new pork rules
The government tightens the limits on allowable drug residues in pork.

Australia out to hold grip on Japan's beef market
Australia is hoping to hold the lead it has established in Japan's beef market in the absence of American beef, by better catering to Japanese tastes.

High Costs for Country of Origin Labelling in Australia
A new study shows it would cost Australians $120 million a year to extend country-of-origin labelling to canned or packaged food that includes two or less principal whole fruit or vegetable products.

There will be no increases in price of meat products--Pampi
The Philippine Association of Meat Processors of the Philippines Inc. (Pampi) has assured the Department of Agriculture that there will be no increases in prices of corned beef and other meat products despite rising costs of materials.  

Europe

Documents reveal 14 countries received British blood products with vCJD risk
Fourteen countries received British blood products exported during the 1990s that could be tainted with the prion that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, according to documents obtained by The Guardian newspaper.

USA

U.S. livestock prices rise
Processors paid approximately four percent more for cattle, pigs, and lambs in 2005.

Tyson’s second quarter tougher than expected
Depressed markets and an oversupply of all proteins contribute to poor performance at the meat-processing giant.

USDA releases report on investigation into Alabama BSE case
USDA’s Animal and Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) today released the results of an investigation into a BSE case identified in Alabama in March and noted that the animal was a non-ambulatory red crossbred, and that dentition determined that the animal was more than ten years old.

Asia Pacific

Japan adopts new pork rules
The government tightens the limits on allowable drug residues in pork.

Australia out to hold grip on Japan's beef market
Australia is hoping to hold the lead it has established in Japan's beef market in the absence of American beef, by better catering to Japanese tastes.

High Costs for Country of Origin Labelling in Australia
A new study shows it would cost Australians $120 million a year to extend country-of-origin labelling to canned or packaged food that includes two or less principal whole fruit or vegetable products.

There will be no increases in price of meat products--Pampi
The Philippine Association of Meat Processors of the Philippines Inc. (Pampi) has assured the Department of Agriculture that there will be no increases in prices of corned beef and other meat products despite rising costs of materials.  

Europe

Documents reveal 14 countries received British blood products with vCJD risk
Fourteen countries received British blood products exported during the 1990s that could be tainted with the prion that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, according to documents obtained by The Guardian newspaper.

USA

U.S. livestock prices rise
Processors paid approximately four percent more for cattle, pigs, and lambs in 2005.

Tyson’s second quarter tougher than expected
Depressed markets and an oversupply of all proteins contribute to poor performance at the meat-processing giant.

USDA releases report on investigation into Alabama BSE case
USDA’s Animal and Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) today released the results of an investigation into a BSE case identified in Alabama in March and noted that the animal was a non-ambulatory red crossbred, and that dentition determined that the animal was more than ten years old.