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Japan: Seafood Market Update

Japan is one of the world’s leading consumers of seafood. In 2022, it imported $15 billion of seafood products, making it the world’s third largest importer. Half of Japan’s seafood demand is met by imports. The United States is the third largest seafood supplier to Japan, specializing in salmon, cod, pollock, herring, crab, and lobster.
On February 24, 2023, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued an order pertaining to FSSAI Order TIC-20012/2021-IMPORTS-FSSAI (E2475), extending the compliance date for a third time for Imports of Milk, Pork, and Fish Products.
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Taiwan: Taiwan Seafood Market Update 2023

Taiwan’s overall seafood imports reached US$2.1 billion in 2022, up 20 percent from 2021, with imports from the United States decreasing slightly to US$32 million.
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Philippines: Food Processing Ingredients

The Philippines’ rapidly expanding production of processed foods and beverages (f&b) presents robust opportunities for U.S. exporters of agricultural raw materials and high value ingredients.
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Israel: Lowering the Cost of Living

Israeli Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development disclosed at a press conference on July 12, 2015 a series of reforms that are expected to lower consumer food prices...
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) amended the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulations, 2011, and has set biotoxin limits in fish and fish products.
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India amended the Food Safety and Standards Regulations, 2011, to update its standards for dried/salted and dried fishery products.
President Putin Signed Amendments to the Veterinary Law . . . New Beer and Cider Reporting Requirements . . . Amendments to the Forestry Code of the Russian Federation . . .
Russian Food Ban Extended Until August 2016 . . . Russian Government Issued Orders on Distribution of Federal Agricultural Subsidies to Provinces . . .
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Israel: Tel Aviv Tidbits

Israel to update Its Animal Welfare Law, Improvement in Chemical Residues in Animal Products for 2014 and Ministry of Agriculture’s Annual Survey on Organic Products not too Enlightening.