New Zealand has unveiled a strategy and action plan to help focus resources so it can quickly respond to current issues and prepare for emerging threats.
The strategy sets out a plan of action to
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Five new trade concerns on food raised at WTO meeting
Five new trade concerns on food safety, animal and plant health were raised at a recent meeting of a World Trade Organization (WTO) committee.
The Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures also discussed 12
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UK MPs want food standards guarantees after Brexit
A committee of Members of the United Kingdom’s Parliament (MPs) is seeking assurances on food standards after Brexit.
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee put forward an amendment regarding trade deals and food
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Cuba open for U.S. meat and poultry producers; cash required
All federally inspected meat, poultry and egg plants in the United States are now eligible to export to Cuba under export requirements published this week. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) posted the
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Senators Ask Leaders to Repeal COOL Law on Meat to Avoid Retaliatory Tariffs
Five U.S. senators from three states, all Democrats, have let the leadership know that county-of-origin (COOL) meat labeling is not worth a trade war with Canada and Mexico. Led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the
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Letter From the Editor: The Truth About Food, Ag Trade With Cuba
I take personal satisfaction in the fact that I’ve almost always resisted breaking the law. There is no proof whatsoever that some years ago, while in a small Latin American country, I was offered a
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Why USDA Needs a New Program to Export Sandwiches to Canada
Which foods the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates and which foods the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulates are not easy questions to answer. One oft-repeated example used to demonstrate the complexities is that cheese
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Global Food Safety Forum to Focus on Technology, Compliance
The third Global Food Safety Forum, being held June 13-14, 2015, in Beijing will explore ideas laid out in a newly released white paper entitled, “Food Safety Technologies: Key Tools for Compliance.” Chapters by
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FSIS Approves Chinese Plants for Poultry Processing
Four Chinese poultry processing plants have been approved to export cooked chicken to the U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has approved China’s export health certificate which demonstrates that
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Hearing on China’s Food Safety Spotlights Poultry Processing
China may be moving closer to legally exporting processed cooked chicken to the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has received from China a list of four plants that the country has certified as
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Imports and Exports: Americans Shop the World for Food Every Day of the Week
Trade experts say we should not expect to see a decline in food exports and imports when figures become available for Oct. 1-16, 2013, the period of the partial government shutdown. They say that global
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