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Harrisvaccines announces United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) licensure of the company’s swine flu vaccine, approved by the Department’s Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) for disease caused by swine influenza virus (SIV) H3N2.

BASF plans to acquire Becker Underwood for a price of $1.02 billion (€785 million).

Wageningen UR and four companies have committed themselves to reinforcing the position of the Netherlands as an innovative livestock breeding country through the Breed4Food initiative.

EU leaders from the EU Agricultural Cooperatives Confederation Cogeca unanimously elected in Brussels today Mr Christian Pèes from France as its new President. Thomas Magnusson from Sweden and Maria Antónia Figueiredo were elected as two new Vice-Presidents.

Canada's Economic Action Plan is helping an Alberta meat processing company expand their operations and increase sales.

EuroTier 2012 is more international than ever before. The strong growth in the number of exhibitors, with an extra 40 per cent by comparison with the last event, is made up chiefly of international exhibitors.

A complete range of conferences, network meetings, workshops, knowledge platforms and presentations on the subject of innovative animal husbandry forms the new format for VIV China.

The Symposium will appeal to a wide range of different industry members ranging from those involved in the scientific and veterinary fields of porcine health and management.

Handley, 57, was most recently senior executive vice president and president of Global Food & Beverage and Asia Pacific Latin America for Ecolab Inc.

Norfolk pig farmer Stuart Mayhew has won a laptop computer and a year’s free subscription to PigCom — a windows-based pig management software package — in a prize worth £1,500.

Pfizer Animal Health is accepting research proposals for the PRRS Innovation Research Grant. The program will allocate $100,000 for porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS) research.

Cooperl Arc Atlantique, a major group of French pig breeders accounting for 20% of the whole pig production in France, announced it will propose plans designed to completely stop the castration of piglets by March 2013.

The 23rd Annual JSR Conference was hailed a success by delegates who were educated and entertained by a line-up of top industry leaders.

FSIS intends to announce in the Federal Register, changes it will make in its procedures for Listeria monocytogenes product sampling programs in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

Forum will support sales and growth of DELACON products, including BIOSTRONG® for poultry, and FRESTA® F, the world’s first and only phytogenic product approved by the European Union as a zootechnical additive for piglets.

Boehringer Ingelheim has announced the beta launch of its first social game on Facebook, called Syrum. Syrum will be a new and evolving platform for the research-driven pharmaceutical company to inspire and educate in a changing digital world.

Pfizer Animal Health named Julie Menard, Agr., DVM, of Ange-Gardien, Quebec, the 2012 Allen D. Leman Science in Practice Award Winner.

The Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB) will be holding its fourth annual Canadian Swine Health Forum at The Fairmont Winnipeg, in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 17th & 18th, 2012.

Acquisition enables Bayer HealthCare to expand companion animal and food animal product lines.

Atlantic Premium Brands Ltd. announced, with the support of The Humane Society of the United States, plans to eliminate controversial pig “gestation crates” from its supply chain.

DELACON will contribute a poster presentation of its 2 leading products for poultry and pig, Biostrong 510 and Fresta F.

Recent analytical surveys showed that one fourth of pig kidneys in Thailand were above the regulatory limit in cadmium concentration.

There has never been a better time to become involved in Australia’s pork industry, with the innovative, well resourced CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) now offering honours and postgraduate awards, which pay up to $38,500 per year.

The sessions will be taught by ISU animal science and veterinary medicine faculty members who are certified PQA Plus trainers.