Pork

Federal authorities have issued a public health alert about more than two dozen beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products as a precaution due to possible parasite contamination.

Bulgaria will no longer be able to import food for personal consumption containing pork, says an order of the Executive Director of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency due to the African swine fever disease, reports Sega.

92 outbreaks of African swine fever have already occurred in the Romanian town of Tulcea, which is only 160 km away from the Bulgarian border.

China has increased tariffs by up to 25 percent on 128 U.S. products including frozen pork, wine and certain fruits and nuts, escalating a spat between the world's biggest economies in response to U.S. duties on imports of aluminum and steel.

The European Union intends to demand from Russia an annual EUR 1.39 billion due to restrictions on imports of pig meat, RIA Novosti reports, quoted by BGNES.

Russian president Vladimir Putin could not help laughing when Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachov mentioned exporting pork to Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country. During the October 13 meeting on the development of agriculture, Tkachov proposed increasing pork meat exports to Asia. “They (Germany) send half their pork to export.

Hepatitis E can cause liver cirrhosis in vulnerable people.

Pork products sold by a leading British supermarket may have infected thousands of people with a form of hepatitis that can cause liver cirrhosis, according to health officials.

Scientists at a Massachusetts company seeking to make pig organs safe enough to be transplanted into humans have used gene-editing technology to clone piglets that lack a potentially dangerous retrovirus, according to a study released on Aug. 10.

China lifted a ban on imports of meat from Brazil on March 25 after Brazilian authorities clarified details of a police investigation into alleged bribery of health inspectors, in a victory for President Michel Temer's efforts to stem damage from the probe.

On Wednesday several countries have banned imports of Brazilian meat after police raided several meat producers last Friday for allegedly doling out bribes to inspectors to certify meat that was either rotten or tainted with salmonella.

In an effort promote its new Bacon 3-Way Burger, a fast food company has created a series of commercials starring three oiled up blondes in bikinis engaged in a pseudo menage a trois.