Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that further efforts would be made by the government to i...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
