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Ractopamine Restrictions Cause Pork Export Slump
2013-05-06 21:16:00| National Hog Farmer
By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA Choose about any negative word you want awful, dismal, disastrous, whatever they can be used to describe the state of pork exports in March. Only Canada and the markets labeled other were higher this March year than last, +7.4% and 16.2%, respectively. All others were lower. Some a lot lower! read more
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Russian Ban On Ractopamine Boosts Brazilian Exports
2013-03-27 16:28:00| Beef
By Simon Quilty, Australia Russia banned imports of U.S. pork, chicken and beef in February due to the use of ractopamine. While Russia may have a genuine concern about the use of the feed additive, theres no doubt it will use food safety issues like this to protect its own economic interests when needed. read more
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Neogen Launches Rapid Tests for Ractopamine
2013-03-25 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - As international debate continues on the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Neogen Corporation has launched easy 10 minute tests to detect ractopamine in animal and animal feed samples.
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Neogen Launches Rapid Tests For Ractopamine
2013-03-21 23:48:32| Biotech - Topix.net
As international debate continues on the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Neogen Corporation has launched easy-to-use 10 minute tests to detect ractopamine in animal and animal feed samples.
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Russia Tells US to Prove Absence of Ractopamine in Meat Products
2013-03-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
RUSSIA - Russia has said to the US that can only restart exports of turkey meat to the Russian federation if it supplies additional information about laboratory controls to confirm that ractopamine is not used in production.
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