Published: Jul 06, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Poultry leaders in the UK have welcomed a report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which claims current rules on poultry meat inspection are not sufficient to tackle the threat of modern biological hazards, such as campylobacter and salmonel

Published: Jul 06, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

A new partnership initiative to improve how the environmental impacts of the livestock industry are measured and assessed is being headed up by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Published: Jul 06, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

Chinese milk products still cannot make the hop over the Himalayas to the booming Indian market with the company’s authorities calling for an extension on a ban on them.

Published: Jul 06, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has launched a range of fresh milk products in the African country with the aim of challenging Nestlé – a dominant figure in the country’s dairy industry.

Published: Jul 06, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

The Coca-Company has made a further move into the dairy sphere, this time as a stakeholder in Mexican juice company Jugos del Valle, which has just sealed an agreement with dairy firm Santa Clara in the country.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

Ecolab, in association with Vidya Dairy, organised conference on importance of food safety and hygiene in the dairy industry on June 30, 2012 in Anand, Gujarat.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

Although cost structures of Brazilian and US broiler production are similar, primarily due to feed costs in both countries being closely linked to global corn and soybean prices, increasing costs are eroding Brazil’s advantages, according to a new study.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported a consortium led by French oilseed giant Sofiproteol has the backing of the French government to bid for Doux, one of the world's biggest poultry exporters, according to Reuters.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

Sean Connolly, CEO of The Hillshire Brands Company, formerly Sara Lee Corporation, is looking forward to adding more products to the company’s lineup, including meat snack meats, according to a Reuters report.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

A new Northern Beef Packers plant being built in Aberdeen has made several attempts to open since 2006, but its long-anticipated opening appears imminent in the near future, reports KSFY ABC.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

The New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority (NZASA) has forced New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to amend its website after complaints about five “misleading” health claims for its dairy products.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

The Renault-Nissan Alliance, a partnership between France-based Renault and Japan-based Nissan, has entered into an exclusive fleet contract with nutritional food company Danone.

Published: Jul 05, 2012

Southern Cross Foods (SC Foods), a wholly owned subsidiary of CJ Patel, has entered into an agreement to acquire Fiji Dairy from the government of Fiji for FJD10m ($4.42m).

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The search is on to find the UK’s best food and drink manufacturers to match the achievement of Weetabix, which won the 2011 Food Manufacturing Company of the Year award.

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Vladislav Vorotnikov

Russia and India were the most rapidly developing countries in terms of production of poultry meat in 2011, according to estimates from leading Russian analytical agency Agroru.

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Mexico has launched emergency measures to tackle a bird flu outbreak, which has so far resulted in the death of 870,000 birds.

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Ben & Jerry’s has teamed up with Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) to campaign for better treatment of Europe’s dairy cows.

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Lion Foods says it is satisfying a demand for less processed food by altering its milk manufacturing process to remove permeate, a watery milk production by-product, from products launched this week.

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Fonterra has been forced to make changes to its website, after the New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority concluded that the dairy exporter had milked several nutritional claims.

Published: Jul 05, 2012

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) program has further expanded its coverage of salmon facilities with the certification of five Marine Harvest Canada salmon farm sites.