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New company headquarters for Poly-clip System

fleischwirtschaft.com - GERMANY, Hattersheim am Main. Precisely on schedule the company in the field of clip closure technology has moved into its new company headquarters in Hattersheim am Main, Germany.  

USDA Seeks to Modernize Poultry Inspection

fleischwirtschaft.com - USA, Washington. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing a modernization of young chicken and turkey slaughter inspection in the United States by focusing FSIS inspection resources on the areas of the poultry production system that pose the greatest risk to food safety.  

New training manuals for improving small-scale pig production

fleischwirtschaft.com - INDIA, Nagaland. A new set of training manuals for pig farmers is now available. The manuals inform poor rural pig farmers in developing countries how to ‘intensify' their production, using lessons gathered from a research-for-development project in India. Among other recommendations, the manuals offer ways of improving smallholder pig farming, including basic veterinary care, and pork production and marketing.  

Record prices, but negative margins

fleischwirtschaft.com - WASHINGTON. Through the week of December 31, cumulative weekly federally inspected cow slaughter was approximately 5% above the same year earlier period, and was more than 14% above same period in 2009.  

Canadian food safety funding cuts critised by union

fleischwirtschaft.com - CANADA, Ottawa. Canadian government plans to reduce food safety funding - including resources to combat Listeriosis - have been critised by the union that represents federal food inspectors.