Plant-based food maker Beyond Meat prepares IPO
Beyond Meat plans to go public with the ticket symbol BYND, the company said in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission. The maker of plant-based…
US meat safer than in the past
US foodborne illness issues in meat have been slashed due to residue surveillance and a preventive approach. In 1978, the USDA was detecting residues in…
Japan finds Classical swine fever again in Gifu Prefecture
A second case of CSF was detected in Gifu Prefecture on Nov 16 at a park, after the nation’s first case in decades was reported…
African swine fever continues to spread in China
China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has confirmed a first case of ASF in a wild boar in Jilin province in northeastern China. A…
Sorghum cultivation promoted in tribal lands
CP Foods Philippines and the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) are promoting sustainable sorghum production in tribal areas to meet growing domestic demand for animal…
US chicken glut looms
Americans are eating more pork and beef and less chicken. The National Chicken Council has predicted that the US chicken sector would generally lose…
Neovia signs an R&D partnership with TargEDys
Neovia has inked a deal with TargEDys, a French start-up specialising in probiotics, to work together to discover a new approach to weight control in…
ASF found in Chinese animal feed
Animal feed producer Tangrenshen Group in China has reported that feed produced by one of its units has been contaminated with African swine fever (ASF)….
Taurine bottleneck looms
With Fuchi Pharmaceutical Co Ltd due to carry out maintenance work in December, the supply of taurine is set to tighten. Also, long Chinese holidays…
US pork loses out in Japan
Imported pork from Canada, Chile and Mexico will be more competitive in Japan under multilateral trade talks that the US quit in 2017. Beginning in…