China’s Qinzhou authorized to export poultry to Malaysia

Qinzhou Nine-Alliance Food Co. Ltd. in China’s Guangxi province has recently obtained the Filing Certificate of Export Food Production Enterprises issued by the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China, becoming the first poultry processing company in Guangxi qualified to export poultry products.
With the qualification, the company is expected to export 2,000 metric tons of poultry meat to Malaysia in the fourth quarter of 2015 with the total worth of the export amounting to US$3.4 million, according to the China Quality News Network. In the future, the annual averaged export of poultry meat products to Malaysia can be at least 5,000 metric tons, worth US$8.5 million.
Up to date, the six operational farms have passed the site assessment of the assessment team which has recommended the registration of the farms to export to Malaysia.
Operational since May 19, the Qinzhou Nine-Alliance Broiler Farming and Processing Project is the third project of Tsingtao Nine-Alliance Group.
Tsingtao Nine-Alliance Group is the largest broiler production and processing exporter in China. Nine-Alliance Group is an integrated broiler company specializing in poultry breeding, broiler farming, feed manufacturing and poultry products exporting. In November 2014, Tsingtao Nine-Alliance Group passed the assessment of export qualification by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of USDA.

China company Huaying sends first poultry shipment to EU

Chinese feed and poultry company Huaying Agricultural Development Inc. recently held a ceremony in Shandong’s Shan county to mark its first shipment of poultry meat products exported to the European Union.
That first shipment consisted of 21 tons of boneless roast duck. The products are being sent to Germany, and were produced by the Huaying Agricultural Development subsidiary, Heze Huaying Co., according to a report provided by Smart Agriculture Analytics. The company successfully registered to begin exporting its products to the European Union in December 2014.
Hauying, according to the WATTAgNet Top Poultry Companies Database, is the largest duck processor in the world. The company is involved in poultry farming, processing and product sales, along with distribution of feedstuffs and retail of meat products. The company processes 100 million of its Cherry Valley brand ducks annually, along with an additional 80 million chickens. The integrated company also has a feed production capacity of 1.2 million metric tons.

China urges EU to approve more Chinese poultry suppliers

China is negotiating with the European Union to resume cooked poultry imports from Beijing and the three provinces of Jilin, Henan and Fujian, said Yu Taiwei, head of the Food Safety Bureau of China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, in an online interview December 11.
So far, only nine Chinese poultry companies in Shandong province are licensed to sell cooked poultry to the European Union. Statistics from China’s Ministry of Commerce show that the total export volume of cooked poultry to the European Union was 1,752 tons from December 2008 to May 2009.

NTF supports China export compromise

The National Turkey Federation and its membership has said it favors a compromise from Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D.-Conn., and Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., that could permit cooked poultry products from China to be sold in the United States.
The agreement would ensure the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service can proceed in conducting risk assessments of cooked poultry products from China and inspecting Chinese plants to determine their eligibility for export to the United States, according to NTF President Joel Brandenberger. The House and Senate conferees have agreed to include this provision in the Fiscal Year 2010 Agriculture Appropriations Bill.
China is the second-largest foreign purchaser of U.S. turkey products, and it has expressed its strong opposition to a provision authored by DeLauro in last year’s appropriations bill preventing USDA from proceeding with a risk assessment and plant inspection.
The agreement allows FSIS to begin conducting risk assessments, inspecting Chinese plants and making science-based determinations about the equivalency of Chinese food safety systems. However, several key provisions must be met for product to enter the country. The agreement will require significant reporting to Congress but gives the Secretary of Agriculture the discretion to administer the program in accordance with established procedures for all other countries.

China-EU cooked chicken trade grows slowly

From January to May 2009, 1,752 tons of cooked chicken products worth US$5.4 million were exported from China to the European Union, shown in the latest statistics from China’s Ministry of Commerce.
During the first five months of 2009, China’s actual exports of cooked chicken products failed to reach its expected amounts, due to strong competition from Thailand and weak demand during the global recession, said Huang Haiqian, analyst at Beijing-based China Chamber of Commerce of Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-Products.
By last September, China’s cooked poultry products were not allowed to enter the EU market. As a result, domestic exporters, who were unfamiliar with the inspection system in the EU, had to slow down their exports, added Huang.
Currently, only nine producers from Shandong province are allowed to export cooked chicken products to the EU, and their exports account for less than 10% of China’s total exports of cooked chicken products, according to Huang.