On November 15, 2021, China notified the National Food Safety Standard: Code of Hygienic Practice of Producing for Prepared Meat Products to the WTO SPS Committee as G/SPS/N/CHN/1240. This is the first notification of a domestic code of hygienic practice of producting for prepared meat products in China.
World Production, Markets, and Trade Report

Dairy: World Markets and Trade

This biannual report includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in dairy products.
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Bulgaria: Retail Foods Bulgaria

With its developing grocery retail industry, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic Bulgaria was a growing market for food and beverages, with growing consumer confidence, declining unemployment, upward incomes, and a stable number of foreign tourists...
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China: Draft Standard for Infant Formula Manufacturing

On November 17, China notified the National Food Safety Standard: Good Manufacturing Practice for Powdered Infant Formula to the WTO SPS Committee.
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China: Snack Food Market Overview

As incomes rise and consumption increases, China’s snack food market is developing rapidly. Snack food sales reached $74 billion in 2021, an increase of 7.9 percent over the previous year. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven consumers to pay more...
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Hong Kong: Hong Kong Bakery Goods Market

Hong Kong is the ninth largest importer of baked goods in the world, with imports valued at $870 million. Major import categories included pastries, bread, and cakes. For the first ten months of 2021, Hong Kong imports of baked goods were $721 million, a modest increase of 1.61 percent over the same period in 2020.
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India: Food India 2018 - Trade Show Announcement

The first edition of Food India, inspired by SIAL, will be held between September 16 -18, 2018, at Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in New Delhi.
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Mexico: Food Processing Ingredients

Mexico has a strong food processing industry in which leading Mexican brands like Bimbo, PepsiCo, Lala, and Nestle among others, have a well-developed national distribution network....
On December 23, 2016, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC, currently the National Health Commission) and the China Food and Drug Administration....
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Taiwan: Food Processing Ingredients

Taiwan’s food processing industry produced an estimated USD18.4 billion of processed food and drinks in 2017.
The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) fourth amendment regulations....
South Africa is a middle-income emerging market economy with well-developed infrastructure and a domestic food market worth $55 billion.