Swine news - Pig health

EFSA will participate in a series of events and meetings with its Chinese, EU and international partners in early November to promote the global harmonisation of food safety risk assessment and communication.

The sector-specific targets were developed over the past year by a ‘Targets Task Force’, facilitated by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) Alliance.

The disease has been reported in the Whixley/Green Hammerton area, near York. Farmers in the area are urged to be vigilant and report any signs to their vet.

A set of indicators will assist European Union (EU) Member States to assess their progress in reducing the use of antimicrobials and combatting antimicrobial resistance.

Sales of antibiotics for use in animals in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since records began, exceeding a government target to combat the threat of antibiotic resistance (AMR) two years early.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) partners, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, released the 2015 NARMS Integrated Report.

Russia has imposed a temporary prohibition on the entrance of pork from South Ossetia due to the presence of ASF.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced support for research to help maintain healthy agricultural animals.

Since 2011, the German pharmaceutical industry has the obligation of recording, yearly, the amount of commercialised veterinary medicines, specially antibiotics, and of reporting these data to a central register.

A total of 30 European countries — 29 European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland — submitted data on sales or prescriptions (two countries) of antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products (VMPs) to the European Medicines Agency for 2015.

The goals regarding the decrease in the use of antibiotics have not only been attained but exceeded.

Se extenderá el ámbito de su colaboración con el fin de ampliar el enfoque “Una sola salud”, reconociendo la interconexión entre la salud humana, la sanidad animal y el medio ambiente.

The veterinary authorities of Ivory Coast reported the presence of African swine fever in the Commune of Ferkéssédougou to the WOAH.

Following recent notifications of ASF outbreaks in Moldova, the existing measures of cleansing and disinfection should be extended to the vehicles entering the Union from Moldova.

Three companies have been authorised for the export of Brazilian pork to South Korea.

The decrease was mainly driven by the use of antimicrobials for pigs, which was 4% less than the year before.

The last appearance in pigs was in Primorskiy Kray in December 22nd, 2015.

Up to now, L'Viv was the only Ukrainian province that hadn’t notified cases of the disease.

Italy: the European Commission acknowledges that the region of Campania is free of swine vesicular disease.

Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis and the Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) José Graziano da Silva, today agreed to ramp up collaboration between the two organisations in tackling the problems of waste in food supply chains and antimicrobial resistance.

ASF has appeared in Romania and the Czech Republic for the first time, and it advances southwards in Poland.

Online tool to help in the sampling strategies with the aim of proving that a farm is PRRSV-negative.

The representatives of the veterinary services of Mexico, Canada and the USA ratified their commitment for keeping the health status in the region with the aim of providing confidence regarding the health certifications.

The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) established the containment area with which it aims to recover, for the rest of the national territory, the foot-and-mouth disease free status with vaccination.