An Acceptable Pathogen Reduction Treatment for the EU Poultry Market
The EU poultry meat market has been closed to U.S. producers since 1997 when the EU began blocking imports of U.S. poultry products that had been processed with...
Livestock, Animal Agriculture, Protein
Canadian and Mexican COOL Case Again at the WTO
Last month, officials from the U.S. Trade Representatives (USTR) Office were again at the WTO in Geneva arguing that U.S. mandatory country-of-origin-labeling ...
New U.S. BSE Rule Conforms with International Standards
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of USDA has issued a final rule that will align the agencys import regulations for bovine spongiform enc...
Cattle Producers Push for Strong TPP Trade Agreement
Negotiations on the twelve-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) are nearing the endgame as heads of state plan to meet on the sid...
COOLs Collateral Damage
Among the many tragedies of war is collateral damage: deaths and casualties of non-combatants who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time as well as t...
Smithfield Foods Positions for More Pork Exports
The announcement that Smithfield Foods has entered into an agreement with Hong Kong-based Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd for a friendly sale of the compan...
Mexico Struggles with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
China has received most of the attention for the past five months with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N9. However, Mexico has struggled for almost a...
Country-of-Origin Labeling for Meat in Controversy Again
The 30-day comment period for the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of USDA proposed revised rules for country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for meat ended on Ap...
Whats the Beef?
On a trip to Germany a few years ago, I wandered into the meat section of a grocery store. What I saw astonished me.
The beef section in the meat case was ve...
U.S. Beef Is Going Global
A decade ago, the U.S. beef industry was going global like never before. Production was rising, demand was growing, and everyone just wanted to buy more cattle....