Swine news - Pig health

With the aim of identifying, assessing and controlling the hazards related to the use of veterinary drugs and biopharmaceuticals, and to protect the animal life and health, the ICA has established the National Pharmacovigilance System.

A website set up to promote responsible use of antibiotics on farms has been updated to provide farmers with a 'one-stop shop' on the subject.

Paraguay starts with the serological sampling of pigs within the framework of the CSF control programme.

The WOAH acknowledges that the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak ended in Colombia, so it is expected that in 90 days Colombia will be deemed as a foot-and-mouth disease-free country.

This newly proposed action would relieve CSF-specific restrictions on the importation of pork and pork products from Mexico.

Due to the detection of PRRS in Uruguay in late July, the SENASA adopted several measures to protect the national pig production.

New leaflet explains how EMA works to promote safe and effective veterinary therapies.

Health authorities from both countries analysed the health protocols for exporting avocados from Jalisco, and Mexican bananas, pig by-products, horse meat and beef.

After a thorough evaluation, APHIS determined that the surveillance, prevention, and control measures implemented by the European Union (EU) and the Republic of Malta are sufficient to minimize the risk of introducing these diseases into the United States. View the determination here.

The new model includes control practices already proven in the USA and the EU.

The disease has been detected in domestic pigs from a backyard farm near the border with Hungary.

On 16 December 2016 the Commission launched a call for applications to select and designate an EU reference laboratory in the field of foodborne viruses.

A new report from the three agencies presents new data on antibiotic consumption and antibiotic resistance and reflects improved surveillance across Europe.

The ‘One Health’ European Joint Programme (EJP), formed by 41 research centres and reference laboratories from 19 member states has passed the European Commission’s assessment and will receive subsidies for the next 5 years.

The appearance of the porcine epidemic diarrhoea in Chile would cause a greatly negative impact at a national level.

The ICA has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Cúcuta (North Santander), at 300 meters from the border with Venezuela, and another one in Tibacuy (Cudinamarca) related to the outbreak in Yacopí.

The affected premises are located in the departments of Salto and Canelones.

The PEDV cases in the Canadian province of Manitoba are growing week after week.

The Commission informed ministers of the state of play in the fight against African swine fever.

The plan outlines a strategy to detect and respond to emerging animal diseases and define the processes that APHIS will use to identify, evaluate, and respond to emerging diseases in animal populations.

The changes in the epidemiological situation as regards ASF in Estonia, Lithuania and Poland constitutes an increase in the level of risk.

With these new ASF outbreaks detected in the Czech Republic, the confirmed outbreaks since the appearance, for the first time, of the disease by late June, total 25.

The Commission presented its communication "One health action plan".

Consumption of raw or undercooked pork meat and liver is the most common cause of hepatitis E infection in the EU, said EFSA.