2019-3-4 15:53:33

China pork producers surge as swine disease cuts supply

China is battling the world's fastest spreading outbreak of African swine fever, an incurable pig disease that has been confirmed in 28 of its provinces and regions.

2019-12-18 11:14:40

China imported meat market in turmoil, as buyers seek to renegotiate deals after prices plummet

REPORTS of Chinese buyers reneging on contracts on beef and other imported proteins have emerged this week, as imported meat prices in the country continue to plummet. After climbed dramatically over a four-week period from late October, imported beef prices into China have crashed equally alarmingly over the past few weeks. Beef Central first started to pick up the trend in this report, published last week. The events of the past fortnight are arguably the most dramatic in Australia’s international beef trade seen since the Russian imported beef market collapse in 2008, when dozens of Russian customers walked away from contracts, leaving Australian containers on Russian wharves, and sending some exporters in Australia broke. The latest market impact in China is being seen in all imported proteins including mutton, lamb and pork, as well as beef.

2020-11-26 17:51:46

The positive rate 0.48 per 10,000! Consumers have a very low risk of infection through general contact

Yesterday, at a press conference held by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, Li Ning, deputy director of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, stated that the positive rate of new coronavirus nucleic acid detected in cold chain food and its outer packaging is generally low. The positive rate was 0.48 per 10,000, and the main cause was contamination of food packaging. Consumers have a very low risk of infection through general contact.