Successful meat processing companies strive for further improvements in product range and quality in the light of specific needs of each market.

There are no sufficient domestic processing capacities for milk, meat and wool.

Another important issue is standards for hygiene and sanitation at meat processing plants.

Meat and meat preparation

The demand for exotic meats (such as ostrich and other game meat and venison) is also growing.

In meat processing, particularly in poultry, full integration of the operation helps success.

It was a train loaded with frozen turkeys they say, at Thanksgiving from the meatpacking district.

Although world demand is increasing, the meat industry faces over capacity.

Other changing demand characteristics that have implications for meat processing companies are the shift to products with lower fat and salt content, and to more quot natural quot products, as consumer concerns increase about food safety.

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The company itself, Oxitec, we've been working for the last 10 years, very much on a sort of similar development pathway that you'd get with a pharmaceutical company.

Technology for meat processing is widely available on the world market and is not complicated for the earlier stages of processing (slaughter and cutting packaging) but further processing technology is becoming more sophisticated.

(b) Of 58 firms and affiliates approached in 1997, 16 were unable to submit a bid owing to the risk location and profile.

And the bad fats are things like trans fatty acids and processed food and saturated fats, which we find in meat.

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I. INTRODUCTION This report examines the market opportunities and particular constraints faced by developing countries in diversifying into food processing in four major areas, namely horticulture, fish, meat, and tropical beverage processing industries.

Plants have also been established by major transnational companies in cocoa processing.

For example, this is the case for bovine meat, sheep and goat and other meat and meat products major cereals, such as rice, wheat and rye as well as for several fruit, vegetable and food industry products.

World trade in the major processed meats was tentatively estimated at US 22 billion in 1995, and the annual growth rate between 1990 1995 is roughly 8 per cent.

An example of a similar strategy in the case of pigmeat is a joint venture, Constar in Poland, where feed and credit are supplied to the farmers by the firm.

In order to cut down on costs, the company refuses to allow employees to work overtime.

For example, ten major companies dominate the world cocoa processing industry.

The market for fish is expected to grow in South East Asian countries and fish processing companies in the region are targeting domestic and neighbouring countries.

The investments needed to bring a fish processing plant up to the standards of a HACCP plan are substantial, and many companies, especially in developing countries, are of the view that the implementation of the new regulations on fishery products is de facto a non tariff measure against processed products originating in developing countries.

More than 50 pig breeders met at the headquarters of their association and voted on minimum prices for which they would sell their pigs to meat packing plants.

Participants in the group include a wide range of companies and institutions.

Horse mackerel is used by the industrial fishery as feed for animals that are exported abroad as meat.

Umami this is a meaty taste.

Rivals for meat. Rivals for berries.

Add meat.

The processing plant is designed to conform to United States and EU hygiene requirements.

Overfishing by foreign fleets in Ghana has been linked to an increase in the bush meat trade.

This is the case of Executive Outcomes and its holding company, Strategic Resources Corporation, which is working in several countries with a profile similar to that described earlier.

They include 200 corporations, 58 partnerships, 288 individual proprietors, 30 co operatives, and 15 non profits, among others.

There are shifts between meats, however, especially in favour of poultry meat which is the fastest growing meat market in value terms.

(b) In Ecuador, the strengthening of the public defence services, and the improvement of the administration of justice

The corporate strategy for UNIDO submitted to the previous session of the General Conference encompassed similar ideas.

Meat consumption increased five fold.

Mr. Lionel Colby, meat consultant (UK)

You mean it might be of a carnal nature?

There is only a small trade in further processed beef products such as corned beef, other canned cooked products, and smaller volumes of frozen cooked products which are demanded particularly in the EU and the United States.

Continental Resources Inc. v. The East Asiatic Company (Canada) Inc.

16. In July 1997, one of the Territory s two canneries, the Samoa Packing Tuna Cannery, along with its California based parent company, Van Camp Seafood, was sold to Tri Union for 92 million.

The United Kingdom based transnational corporation Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) manufactures and sells paraquat under the trade name Gramoxone and has a formulation plant in Malaysia which witnessed an enormous growth in rubber and oil plantations, which are heavily dependent on herbicides.

The latter is a system in which peasant smallholders supply produce under contract to a central processing or marketing firm, either supplementing or substituting for company production.