Swine news - Pig health

Fighting animal and plant diseases: €154 million earmarked for 2018.

The fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the EU: EU One-Health Network meets in Brussels today.

The funds will be allocated, among other things, to the control and eradication of plant pests and animal diseases.

In adopting the communiqué of the 10th Berlin Agriculture Ministers Conference, the participant ministers from 69 states, as well as representatives of the European Commission and of international organisations such as the OIE and FAO, have committed themselves to responsible and sustainable animal husbandry.

Poland encouraged the Commission to take action among others through: aid for private storage...

The Work Group is preparing a regulation project that introduces the obligation of all the farms to adapt, so they fulfil the biosecurity programme principles.

The transport and delivery routes for livestock production must be closely monitored.

It is necessary that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development implements urgent measures to avoid the entrance of the disease.

Following completion of the selection procedure, the successful laboratory was the consortium ANSES & CODA-CERVA.

The prohibition affects four voivodates.

On January 6, the AVMA took significant steps to help the veterinary profession prevent antimicrobial resistance in both animals and people.

New rules requiring swine entering or moving within Wisconsin to originate from a herd that has been tested for PRRS and SECD.

Since June 2017, these countries have notified 3,089 outbreaks in wild boars and 122 in domestic pigs.

The current outbreak, notified by the WOAH, has been detected on a backyard farm.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is recognizing Mexico as free of classical swine fever (CSF).

So far, 90 is the total number of farms affected by the disease since its appearance in February 2014.

On 20 December 2017, the Council agreed its mandate for negotiations with the European Parliament on all three legislative proposals of the Animal medicines package.

In 2018, 100 million pesos shall be allotted to strengthen agrifood health and harmlessness programmes.

When the emergency appeared, the ICA’ goal was that before 6 months the country would recover its health status before the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), and did so.

Although Russia has accepted the WTO’s recommendations, the ban still goes on due to the Russian embargo to several countries (among them all the EU countries) due to political reasons.

According to the ESA platform, there has been an increase in the number of outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in the last months in Europe.

Pig keepers are being reminded not to feed kitchen scraps to their animals to prevent outbreaks of animal disease.

The decrease of Salmonella has been a success story in the EU food safety system in the last 10 years. Recent S. Enteritidis outbreaks contributed to a change in this trend in humans and poultry.

During the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture of the European Union, which took place this Monday and Tuesday, the situation of African swine fever was discussed.