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A survey conducted by the Health Service Support Department found that 28 per cent of Thais are at risk of contracting parasites and bacterial infections because they like eating uncooked meat and seafood.

Kyoto-based precision instrument maker Shimadzu Corp. is planning to use 3D printing technology to produce cultured meat, which is meat made by artificially growing animal cells, in cooperation with Osaka University and Tokyo-based consultant company Sigmaxyz Inc.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating a meat-processing factory in Nakhon Pathom after finding illegal levels of the preservative benzoic acid in its products.

The price of most food items have now returned to the level recorded at the end of last year after surging earlier this year due to factors such as pork shortage and the outbreak of African Swine Fever, the commerce minister said on Monday.

China's top economic planner said on Tuesday that it is ready to stockpile pork, the country's staple meat, for state reserves, as an index monitoring pork prices triggered a second-level warning.

In response to the soaring price of pork, a Nakhon Pathom shabu-shabu restaurant has come up with a new menu offering crocodile meat – a deal that is grabbing a lot of attention on social media.

JBS, the worlds biggest meat supplier, was forced to suspend operations at some of its processing plants after it was hit by a ransomware attack.

South Korea said Wednesday it plans to adopt the positive list system (PLS) to regulate the maximum residue limit of chemicals in meat and fish products in 2024.

Salmon cannot be contaminated with the Covid-19 virus, Disease Control Department deputy director-general Dr Thanarak Palipat stated.

The novel coronavirus has sickened workers and forced slowdowns and closures of some of the country's biggest meat processing plants, reducing production by as much as 25%, industry officials say, and sparking fears of a further round of hoarding.

On Sunday, one of America's largest pork slaughterhouses shut down after more than 200 workers tested positive for the coronavirus. A day later, a massive beef-processing plant in Colorado announced it's winding down operations.

Domestic demand for animal feed could go down by 5-10 per cent due to shrinking consumption, said Thai Feed Mill Association chairman Pornsilp Patcharintanakul.