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Red Tractor is reminding pig producers of changes to the pork scheme standards coming into force in October.

A new Government-backed welfare label based on a three-tier labelling scheme is being launched in Denmark at the end of May.

British pork was on prominent display as more than 80,000 visitors from around the world visited China’s largest food trade exhibition, SIAL.

The Co-operative has pledged to source all its own-label meat, including frozen and processed products from British farmers from 2018.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued advice to consumers about cooking pork, following the recent media reports about hepatitis E.

The Chilean pork sector has made a significant further move into the global marketplace, from the Danes.

The share of pork retail prices received by producers reached its highest level since July 2014 in April, climbing by more than 1% to reach 41.8%.

The NPA has responded to media reports on the link between human infection with the hepatitis E virus and eating pork. 

There were plenty of points of interest for the pig industry in the Conservative manifesto, launched yesterday in Halifax by Prime Minister Theresa May. 

The volume of meat exports from Brazil has fallen in the wake of the meat scandal that hit the country in March.