• Hong Kong: Import of poultry meat and products from areas in US and Canada suspended
• Canada approved leucyl aminopeptidase from Aspergillus oryzae AT1088 for use in a variety of foods
• Israel announced implementation of new food safety, production, sales, and import regulations
• Brazil proposed to revise the standards for limits of contaminants in food
• South Korea proposed to expand the conditions for extending the period of on-site sanitary inspection for excellent importers
• Russia raises wheat export tariffs by 11 percent, corn tariffs by 13 percent
• RASFF: Metal particles detected in Belgian cookie exports
• EU extends authorization period for 13 active substances including Azoxystrobin
• South Korea opens public comments on safety review of genetically modified corn DAS-01131-3
• Kazakhstan starts exporting cowhides to China