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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a new Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) for its field staff on actions they intend to take when finding Salmonella contamination in food for animals.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich suggested instituting a ban on pig breeding and handling for all organisations regardless of the type of ownership, if they fail to comply with biological control requirements.

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture has included the state of Acre in the list of federate states free from Classical Swine Fever.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has held a conference call on measures to fight African swine fever and other highly dangerous human and animal diseases.

The outbreak, located in Zhuxi (Bomi, Linzhi), affects cattle and swine, with 181 and 308 susceptible animals of which 51 and 21 cases.

The Subcommittee, which is part of the National Advisory Food and Agriculture Standardization Committee pertaining to the SAGARPA (Secretariat of Agriculture, Stockbreeding, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food,) will be in charge of designing and revising the food and agriculture regulations regarding stockbreeding.

The affected population consists of wild boar.

The French Directorate General of Food has summoned veterinarians, farmers, technicians and all the operators in the pig sector to maximise the preventive measures against ASF.

26th June 2013, with a view to preventing a spread of this serious epidemic disease, the order of director of the State Food and Veterinary Service No. B1-451 was issued.

According to the historical data available, this finding constitutes the first occurrence of serotype A of foot and mouth disease in this country.

One of the goals of the amendment is to reduce to a minimum the use of antibiotics in the animal production sector.