Deliveries of German pork to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) are now possible again after a two-and-a-half-year ban as a result of the first detections of African swine fever (ASF) in Germany. The first three German slaughterhouses and processing plants were re-approved by the Korean authorities for export to South Korea...
Last week, the federal government approved the regulation on the labeling of origin of food presented by the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Özdemir. The new regulation extends the indication of the origin of fresh, chilled and frozen pork, sheep, goat and poultry meat to non-prepacked meat. This was previously only required for packaged meat. Labeling of origin is already mandatory for unpackaged beef...
The MULTIVAC Group is a winner of the Best Managed Companies Award 2023. The award is given by Deloitte Private and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung together with the Federation of German Industries (BDI) to excellently managed medium-sized German companies. Christian Traumann, CEO of the MULTIVAC Group, accepted the award yesterday in Düsseldorf.
Handtmann has developed a new communication interface that takes the connectivity of Handtmann system technology and foreign body detection solutions to a new level. The new communication interface X40 is open to metal detectors from all manufacturers. Above all, meat and sausage manufacturers in medium to industrial sizes benefit from the central line control and the flexible configuration for a wide range of production processes: The metal detector is connected directly to the outlet of the Handtmann vacuum filler or, if a filling grinder is used, after the filling grinder...
Game dishes are on the rise in local kitchens. Meat from local hunts is very popular: According to the latest surveys, German consumers consumed around 30.000 tons of wild boar, roe deer, red deer and fallow deer last season. Not only is consumption increasing, but also the number of hunters. What is striking here is the growing proportion of young women taking the hunting license exams. The Stuttgart SÜFFA, trade fair for the meat industry, will take up the complex topic of game as a program item from 21 to 23 October...
The Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW) is working flat out on the future of animal welfare in Germany. With a 90 percent market share for poultry in the participating trade and over 50 percent for pigs, the ITW is Germany's largest and most important animal welfare program. The animal welfare criteria, the financing model and the system for controlling the farms are regularly checked and adapted to the current framework conditions...
There is a shortage of skilled workers in Germany. The reasons for this are complex and range from a growing number of young people without vocational training to demographic change and the dwindling attractiveness of many job profiles. Numerous butcher shops also lack trained staff and motivated trainees - the most important resources of every specialist shop...
The German meat industry is in a difficult environment. Pig stocks are also declining significantly due to the federal government's current agricultural policy. Other reasons are weak demand due to inflation and the export ban on wild boar in Germany due to African swine fever. Cattle numbers are also declining...
Handtmann is involved as a sponsor and participant (booth S14) of the international Food Tech Congress, which will take place in Warsaw from May 31 to June 1, 2023 (www.foodtechcongress.com). The congress is committed to "Rethinking food and nutrition". The aim is to establish a more sustainable basis for food and nutrition and to activate those involved to act quickly...
Last week, at the suggestion of Federal Minister Cem Özdemir, the Federal Government appointed Ariane Désirée Kari as Federal Government Commissioner for Animal Welfare. She is currently the deputy state animal welfare officer in Baden-Württemberg and will take up her new position in mid-June 2023. Federal Minister Cem Özdemir: "I am delighted that we have succeeded in recruiting Ariane Kari, a proven expert with many years of animal welfare experience...
Food prices are high and expected to rise further. Average price increases in 2022 ranged from 15 percent for potatoes and fresh fish to 65 percent for sunflower and rapeseed oil. If you compare June 2021, the price differences are even higher...