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Ethiopia’s food safety regime is in the process of transitioning to become a more modern and effective system.

Dr. Gregory L. Parham, USDA’s Assistant Secretary for Administration, recently visited Ethiopia where he opened the 3rd Pan African Conference on SPS Risk Analysis.

FAS/Brazil facilitated over US$ 3 million dollars so far in 2016 in U.S. exports of milk powder to Brazil in response to a domestic shortfall.

Post forecasts broiler production to increase by three percent in 2017 to 14 million metric tons as a result of higher world demand for the Brazilian product.

The Brazilian ethanol-use mandate remains unchanged at 27 percent (E27).

MY2015/16 seed cotton production in Burkina Faso, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal and Chad combined, are expected to drop 10 percent compared to the initial target due to a late start of the rainy season

A lower than anticipated domestic corn supply is forcing prices up, putting pressure on the pork and poultry sectors, and forcing the government to intervene.

The United States exported 836 million gallons of non-beverage ethanol in 2015, nearly all of which was used for fuel.

South Africa should return as a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY with about one million tons on higher production.

Post forecasts that the raisin production will increase by four percent to 51,000 MT in the 2016/17 MY, from 49,000 MT in the 2015/16 MY based on the increase in area production.

Regulations relating to the reduction of sodium in certain foodstuffs and related matters came into effect on June 30, 2016 in South Africa.