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Canada - Canadian Pork Council to distribute traceability ear tags

[Latest swine news]

As part of a national swine tracing system, the Canadian Pork council has begun to hand out traceability ear tags.

Sow vaccination modulates the colonization of piglets by Haemophilus parasuis

[swine abstracts]

This work studied the colonization of H. parasuis in healthy piglets coming from vaccinated and non-vaccinated sows.

Argentina – New structuring of the National Health and Agrifood Quality Service

With the objective of readying the organization of the National Health and Agrifood Quality Service (SENASA) for the challenge of strengthening the role of the state in animal and vegetable health, food safety and environmental health issues, decree 825/2010 was approved this past June.

Intervet/Schering-Plough animal health demonstrates efficacy of simultaneous use of circovirus and mycoplasma vaccines in swine

[Company news]

Simultaneous (mixed) use of existing swine vaccines against porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo) from Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health in swine are as efficacious and safe as separate use of these vaccines.

Russia - The Rosselkhoznadzor imposes temporary FMD restrictions on import of animal products to the Russian Federation from the Akmolinskaya Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan

[Latest swine news]

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance informs that the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes temporary restrictions on import of all species of animals susceptible to FMD, products thereof and raw materials obtained from these animals from the territory of the Akmolinskaya Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation from 09.07.2010 due to occurrence of FMD in this territory.
source: www.fsvps.ru

Denmark - Less salmonella in outdoor pigs

[Latest swine news]

In a survey from the Food Institute of Danish Technical University (DTU) there were salmonella in over ten percent of conventional indoor slaughter pigs, in seven percent of organic pigs, and in only five percent of outdoor pigs.
source: www.food.dtu.dk

Effects of dietary lactose levels during different starter phases on the performance of weaning pigs

[swine abstracts]

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate dietary lactose levels during different starter phases on growth performance, nutrient digestibility and fecal microbial populations.