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Fleischwirtschaft <strong>international</strong> 4_<strong>2017</strong><br />
News<br />
Pork<br />
UK and China sign export deal<br />
Seven businesses in England and<br />
Northern Ireland have been granted<br />
access to supplypork to China. This<br />
new deal is expected to bring a<br />
$257 mill. boost to the UK food<br />
industry.<br />
The new agreements include<br />
approval to export from five sites in<br />
Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire,<br />
County Antrim and County Tyrone.<br />
The UK has signed anew export<br />
deal with China to supplypork<br />
products. Photo: NPA<br />
According to Department of Agriculture,<br />
Environment and Rural Affairs<br />
(DAERA), shipping will not start for<br />
another two to four weeks while the<br />
administration is organised on both<br />
sides but producers are able to<br />
start packing product with aview to<br />
exporting. All of the plants were<br />
inspected by China’sCertification<br />
and Accreditation Administration<br />
(CNCA) technical experts in April<br />
2015,with aseparate team of<br />
inspectors from the General Administration<br />
of Quality Supervision,<br />
Inspection and Quarantine of the<br />
People’sRepublic of China (AQSIQ)<br />
also visiting Northern Ireland in April<br />
2015 to audit pork fifth quarter<br />
production standards for export.<br />
Nine UK producers already export<br />
pork to China, while demand for UK<br />
pork has doubled in terms of value<br />
over the past three years.<br />
//www.daera-ni.gov.uk<br />
Meat from<br />
the bottle<br />
After Coffee to go and<br />
fruit smoothies, the<br />
German master butcher<br />
Peter Klassen from Tremmels<br />
nearby Trier<br />
presents adrink made of<br />
meat. After three years<br />
of development and<br />
implementation period,<br />
Klassen can offer now<br />
the sorts Butcher Beef,<br />
Beef Bombay and Poultry<br />
Royal. The market<br />
launch is planned for<br />
September, the brand<br />
name is still asecret.<br />
The meat drink will be<br />
availiable in a0,33 Liter<br />
aluminium bottle and is<br />
durable without cooling<br />
for one year. Photo: Klassen<br />
BSE<br />
Scientists investigate origin of isolated epidemic cases<br />
The European response to bovine<br />
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)<br />
after the crisis of the 1980s has<br />
significantlyreduced prevalence of<br />
the disease in cattle. However,<br />
isolated cases are still being reported<br />
in the EU and for this reason<br />
the European Commission asked<br />
EFSA to investigate their origin.<br />
The key measure for controlling<br />
BSE in the EU is aban on the use of<br />
animal proteins in livestock feed.<br />
This is because BSE can be transmitted<br />
to cattle through contaminated<br />
feed, mainlyinthe first year<br />
of life.The Commission asked EFSA<br />
to determine if these cases were<br />
caused by contaminated feed or<br />
whether they occurred spontaneously,<br />
i.e. without an apparent<br />
cause. EFSA experts concluded that<br />
contaminated feed is the most likely<br />
source of infection. This is because<br />
the infectious agent that causes<br />
Advertisement<br />
BSE has the ability to remain active<br />
for many years. Cattle may have<br />
been exposed to contaminated feed<br />
because the BSE infectious agent<br />
was present where feed was stored<br />
or handled. Asecond possibility is<br />
that contaminated feed ingredients<br />
may have been imported from non-<br />
EU countries. Experts could not rule<br />
out other causes due to the difficulty<br />
of investigating individual<br />
cases. Some constraints are the<br />
long incubation period of the disease<br />
and the lack of detailed information<br />
at the time of the traceback<br />
investigation.<br />
//www.efsa.eu/en<br />
Meat Market<br />
Pork bellies prices high<br />
The seasonal upswing in bacon consumption, combined with tight supplies<br />
of slaughter-ready hogs has pushed prices for pork bellies to record highs in<br />
UK and the US. In the United States, wholesale prices for pork bellies soared<br />
more than 70% since the start of <strong>2017</strong>,while retail prices for bacon jumped<br />
more than 20%. Meanwhile, pork bellies in cold storage are at a60-year low.<br />
In the United Kingdom, it’s the same story.Average prices for bacon have<br />
advanced 10%, while sausage prices have surged an average of 20%. Demand<br />
for pork in China has been cited as the main driver of higher prices for<br />
pork. The conditions of tight supplies, strong demand and higher prices are<br />
forecast to persist into 2018.Inits Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook<br />
report, the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the USDA said pork production<br />
is likelytoincrease for the balance of <strong>2017</strong> and into 2018.<br />
//www.ers.usda.gov
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