BSE Rule Re-Opened, Change Unlikely The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening the comment period for the interim final rule entitled "Use of Materials Derived from Cattle in Human Food and Cosmetics." Under the interim final rule amended in 2005, the small intestine of cattle can be used in human food, dietary supplements and cosmetics if a portion of it known as the distal ileum has been properly removed. But, according to FDA, since 2005, there have been scientific studies that found trace levels of infectivity in parts of cattle small intestine other than the distal ileum from animals with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.FDA does believe that the levels of infectivity are so low that th...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.