Whole Hog Brief Issue 96, 20 October 2003

..... Brussels police swoop on EU Agriculture over cereals fraud, EU Council adopts smoke flavourings regulations, EU tables new FMD and Swine Fever rules, Danish Crown to focus effort on German market,  Polish meat industry investment boom, Romania slaughters pigs in Swine Fever outbreak, Baltic Ag. Ministers cut deal on Latvian pork, Canterbury Foods to step up debt reduction, DuPont acquires Antec, Mexico worries over US Bioterrorism Act, US food supply vulnerable to attacks, Ontario abattoir suspended, Canadian Interpretive centre opens, American powerhouses, CQA hog drug policy working well,  FMD tests negative for US cattle, Project targets reduced greenhouse gas from swine, Low cost swine methane storage development, Cargill results, Swift results, FSIS improves Salmonella detection, US approval sought for manure fertiliser, Mercosur to spend to end FMD in Bolivia, NZ MAF investigates PMWS, New Cook for APL       , Government stress tests, Danes down under, Pork price increases must be reasonable, Alltech opens Chinese factory, China lifts ban on Korean livestock, South Korean trade,  I say I say, Price monitor