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Mexico has granted market access to British pork offal, in a move that could generate an estimated further £18 million over the next five years. 

A total of 20 people from across the pig sector will be seeking election to the NPA's PIG when voting gets underway later this month. 

NPA chief executive Lizzie Wilson will give evidence to the EFRA Committee this afternoon as part of its inquiry into Fairness in the Food Supply Chain inquiry.

The nomination window for the NPA Pig Industry Group Elections has closed.  

The NPA has called for all non-commercial pork imports to the UK be made illegal and for more resources to be allocated to enforcing the law. 

Revelations that 57 tonnes of illegally imported pigmeat have been seized at the Port of Dover since 2022 are 'deeply worrying'. 

The latest update in the Members' Area concerns a possible investigation into pig farms.

As the industry showed tentative signs of recovery in 2023, 2024 could be the year the confidence returns to the British pig sector.

Minette Batters has urged the Government to make food security a priority, in her final New Year address as NFU president.

2023 – a year of partial recovery and many policy battles. And look out for more political upheaval in 2024!