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[Title] => San Miguel Foods resumes chicken exports to Japan
[Summary] => San Miguel Foods Inc. (SMFI) has resumed exporting chicken to Japan.
SMFI has in recent weeks shipped an initial 10 metric tons (MT), barely two months after Japan lifted the ban on chicken imports from the Philippines.
"The poultry sector is back on track with its plan to supply the Japanese market, some of the companies that were earlier preparing to tap the market prior to the ban, are now firming up their plans," said Ruben Pascual, chairman of the Poultry Export Board and spokesperson of the Philippine Association of Broiler Integrators (PABI).
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-10 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
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[ArticleID] => 338473
[Title] => Japan lifts ban on RP chicken
[Summary] => Japanese government has lifted the ban on poultry from the Philippines.
"The Ministry of Agriculture Food and Forestry of Japan directed the new agricultural attaché in Manila to lift the suspension on the export of chicken products from the Philippines," said Agriculture Secretary Domingo F. Panganiban.
"With the lifting of the ban, we expect negotiations between local poultry processors and their Japanese buyers to resume as early as June,"said Panganiban.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-25 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 331506
[Title] => Japan’s poultry market remains closed to RP
[Summary] => Philippine poultry exporters continue to face uncertainty in their bid to re-open the Japanese market for value-added processed chicken.
"The MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture Food and Forestry) already received the second questionnaire submitted by the Bureau of Animal Industry but they are still translating the 26-page reply to the eight-page questionnaire of the MAFF," said Joseph Sison, agricultural attaché in Tokyo. He said it will take at least two months before the document is translated into the Japanese language.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-12 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 323525
[Title] => Favila asks Japan to lift its ban on RP chicken
[Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila has appealed to Japan to lift its ban on the importation of chicken products from the Philippines.
Following a recent trip to Japan where he met with Japanese Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, Favila reported yesterday that Nakagawa assured him of Japan’s prompt response to the request as soon as the Philippines meets certain technical and scientific requirements.
The Philippines, Favila said, has already responded to the first set of questions sent by Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-27 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097285
[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[ArticleID] => 322588
[Title] => RP eyes alternative export markets for processed chicken
[Summary] => The Philippines, one of a few remaining countries in the region that have not been affected by the dreaded bird flu virus, is turning its sights to markets other than Japan which continues to reject the country’s bid to resume shipments of processed chicken to Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-21 00:00:00
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[Title] => Further delays seen in resumption of RP chicken exports to Japan
[Summary] => The country continues to face tremendous odds in its bid to persuade Japan to allow the resumption of processed chicken exports from the Philippines.
The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) and the local broiler industry jointly submitted last November all the required documents being asked by Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry (MAFF) for the resumption of shipment of processed chicken to Japan. So far, no action has been taken by Japanese authorities.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-17 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 314578
[Title] => Yearender: 2005 sees changing of guard at DOH
[Summary] => The year 2005 witnessed a changing of the guard at the Department of Health (DOH).
Former Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit announced he was resigning effective May 31, but stopped short of saying that President Arroyo had pressured him to do so. He claimed he simply felt it was time to move on after being in the Cabinet for four years.
When pressed, Dayrit admitted that he and Mrs. Arroyo were already discussing "transitional changes in the government" as early as August 2004.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-01 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1804896
[AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo
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[Title] => WHO, DOH: RP still free from bird flu virus
[Summary] => The government has mapped out an "influenza preparedness and response plan" to combat bird flu should the deadly virus enter the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.
"We primarily want to prevent the entry of bird flu here. The plan also involves the banning of poultry products from affected countries. We have long implemented this," Dr. Luningning Villa, DOH program manager for emerging infectious diseases, said in a hastily called press conference.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-24 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo
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[ArticleID] => 298149
[Title] => Japan maintains ban on chicken imports from RP
[Summary] => TOKYO, Japan – The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry (MAFF) will continue to ban the importation of processed chicken from the Philippines.
This after the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), failed to comply with the conditions demanded by the MAFF.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-23 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 291453
[Title] => RP seeks exemption from Japan ban on importation of chicken
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking exemption from the 90-day temporary ban by Japan of its chicken imports from the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-14 00:00:00
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