Unless Canada quickly signs a free trade deal with South Korea, industry officials fear that Canada could risk losing all of its $300 million in annual pork exports to the country.
The company posted a net loss of 67.5 million reais ($38.2 million) in the third quarter, compared to a profit of 143.4 million reais in the same period a year ago.
The USDA said that if Congress does not provide enough money for enforcing a new, sweeping antitrust rule for meat companies, it will abandon portions of the rule.
The CEO of Walker River Meat Processing is hoping to break ground on a new, 300,000-square-foor processing plant north of Yerlington, Nev., next spring.
The American Meat Science Association commissioned this report to bring clarity to the discussion currently taking place within the meat industry and with policy makers and consumers concerning the use of sodium nitrite in processed meat and poultry meats.
M&P Food Production, a Brooklyn, N.Y. establishment, is recalling 63 pounds of Veal Russian Brand dumplings because the dumplings are misbranded in that they may contain pork.