The final figures of the meat sector, prepared by the Information and Economic Analysis Directorate of INAC were presented.
The Head of Information of INAC, Engineer Jorge Acosta, explained the features of the new information instrument, and Cristina Aczel, member of the team that publishes the information, explained that it will be possible to access data through the Market .
The recently elected President of the Republic, Mr. José Mujica Cordano asked Mr. Alfredo Fratti, current President of INAC, to continue on office.
High national authorities and authorities of the University of the Republic attended the awarding ceremony for the 39 students who passed the 1st Module of the Meat Industry Specialization.
During a press conference, the President and the Vice president of INAC, Messrs. Alfredo Fratti and Fernando Pérez Abella respectively, gave details on the main beef indicators, in the framework of the 2009 closure forecast.
Uruguay will reach a beef consumption of 57 kilos per person at the end of this year.
The first audit stage at SEIIC's (black boxes) Main Site was completed on 30 October.
Three restaurants in Mexico have received INAC's certification under the Uruguay Natural Club protocol managed by the Institute.The first certificate was delivered at Restaurant Don Asado.
INIA and INAC presented the publications of the 2nd Quality Audit on the Uruguayan Beef and Sheep Meat Chain, 2007-2008.
Significant decrease of losses was found in comparison with the previous audit (28% for beef, 50% for sheep meat).
The National Meat Institute took part of the Havana International Fair FIHAV, in Cuba, with a stand to present Uruguayan meat, where direct negotiations with Cuban hotel businessmen were established.
Five technicians of INAC have been awarded scholarships and will travel to Japan in November in order to take part of the Program for Training and Discussion of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in the Processing of Meat Products Module.
The External Markets Director, Economist Silvana Bonsignore, and Engineer Fernando Gil, analyzed with the media the main projects planned for the rest of the year and for 2010.
Professor Bob Bansback is a Visiting Professor at Harper Adams University College, in the UK. He is also the current President of the Economics Committee of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS).
INAC presented new services for producers in the framework of Prado Exhibition 09.
Uruguay completed a new step as the first country being a model for meat quality by presenting at the closing of the GlobalGap meeting in Montevideo, the label that will accompany the meat exports under the Certified Natural Meat Program.
The domestic market of Uruguay has systematically been the second most important destination of the meat produced in the country.
This event is part of a world event of greater proportions, which consists of GLOBALGAP conferences being held in every one of the 5 continents where said standard for Good Agricultural Practices is present.
The PMI (Project Management Institute) has selected the SEIIC - Black Boxes project as an international finalist, the project being qualified as one of the 10 best projects nominated among governmental institutions for the year 2008.
Between 22nd-26th June, 2009 the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) carried out a new audit on the Certified Natural Meat Program of Uruguay (CNMPU) with a view to assess its observance of the Process Verified Program (PVP) of said country.
July 18th, on occasion of Uruguay's Constitution Day, the first theme restaurant funded entirely by private investment will be inaugurated in Algarve, with institutional and promotional support by the National Meat Institute.
In the first five months of the year, the beef consumption reached its highest figure since 2003 in Uruguay. The beef consumption figures are 6.5% greater than those of the same period in 2008.
The Information Head, Engineer Jorge Acosta, presented the new producers' site at INAC's web page; a selection of market data together with individual information of producers.
The project was amongst the four best projects of the world at the contest carried out by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
INAC's President, Mr. Alfredo Fratti, confirmed from Germany that business operations were fulfilled during ANUGA exhibition, especially with Russian businessmen, who this time purchased forequarter cuts and fine cuts.
