TheMeatSite Newsletter - 31 March 2010

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Wednesday 31st March 2010

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Welcome to this week's newsletter

Editorial: Worldwide Moves to Make Food Safer Through Law

In the US Senator Jon Tester has introduced the Meat Safety and Accountability Act aimed at improving the ability to trace the original source of contaminated meat.

Sen Tester’s legislation simply requires the US Food Safety and Inspection Service to design and implement - using its existing budget - an initiative to trace tainted meat back to the original source of contamination.

The bill also improves testing at meat suppliers and individual meat processors in the case of an outbreak.

Currently, contaminated meat products are only traced back to the packing plant or butcher shop they came from.

At its last meeting, the European Parliament discussed upcoming CAP reform and the MEPs backed country of origin labelling for food and a European food quality logo was proposed.

Food quality and labelling are likely to be key issues when the Common Agriculture Policy is overhauled in the coming years. On 25 March MEPs called for 'country of origin' marks and clearer food quality labels.

In New Zealand, Meat & Wool New Zealand has set its course for the next five years, with the launch of its Strategic Plan .

The Strategic Plan defines the way in which Meat & Wool New Zealand will do business through to 2014 – what’s new, what has been retained and where the organisation is putting more or less emphasis over time.

Chris Harris

This Week's Feature Articles

We have 6 new features this week:

Food Technology Vital to Feeding Growing World Population
To feed a world population projected to exceed 9 billion people by 2050, technology that can enhance food production will be a significant asset, according to a Kansas State University agricultural economist.

International Meat Review - 18 March 2010
US exports of beef and veal reached 72,596 tonnes in January - down by 6.4 per cent on December according to the latest International Meat Review from the USDA.

Canada - Livestock and Products Semi-Annual Report 2010
Canada’s cattle and swine herds are forecast to continue on a downward trend, according to the latest GAIN Report from USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Republic of Korea - Livestock and Products Semi-Annual 2010
While beef production has been lowered since Korea's farmers continue to delay marketing their animals, the increase in pork production has been larger than expected, according to Yong Keun Ban and Michael G. Francom in the latest GAIN Report from USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

ISU Animal Industry Report - 2010
The Iowa State University annual report of the research activities that relate to the animal agriculture industries - Beef, Dairy, Equine, Poultry, Sheep, Swine and companion animal industries in the state of Iowa - combines research reports from faculty associated with various departments on campus.

Biofilm Production Aids Campylobacter Survival
Scientists at the Institute of Food Research have found a way that the foodborne pathogen Campylobacter can survive in the environment.

Company News

New Meat Bone Separator/Deboner with Very Low Calcium Content
FRANCE - The French manufacturer of separators, LIMA, has recently developed a new concept for the deboning/separating head allowing an important reduction of the Calcium level in the separated meat while keeping an optimum yield.

Global Meat Processing Industry News