Philippines lifts ban on FMD susceptible animals from Japan
The Philippine Department of Agriculture has issued an order lifting its temporary ban on imports of animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) from Japan.
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European Union - The ban on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants could gradually be lifted
The sharp fall in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in the EU must not lead to a slackening of surveillance, say MEPs in a resolution passed on Wednesday. Any change to BSE safety rules must maintain high animal and public health standards, but the ban on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants, such as pigs, could gradually be lifted if further safeguards are put in place, they add.
Porcine rotavirus groups A, B, and C identified by polymerase chain reaction in a fecal sample collection with inconclusive results by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
The results of this study suggest that failure to identify porcine rotaviruses B and C in diarrheic fecal samples is primarily due to use of diagnostic methods of low sensitivity, and not to low prevalence of infection.
Russia - Swine fever situation not improving
The situation over the swine fever outbreak in Russian is not improving, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Tuesday.
Germany - Early warning system
Following the recent Dioxin scandal at the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Agriculture has now legally established an early warning system for food products and feedstuff.
Lithuania announces a fourth outbreak of Classical Swine Fever
On July 3, the Lithuanian authorities gave notice of a secondary source of Classical Swine Fever on a swine farm with a census of 2.045 animals.
South Korea - Foot and mouth disease vaccination certificates to become compulsory from July
Livestock farmers who do not have a foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccination certificate for their livestock will be unable to do business at a livestock market and will be denied permission to ship livestock products to slaughterhouses.
Infection in pigs due to Rotavirus
Rotaviruses are important enteric pathogens that affect newborns of several animal species. In swine, they can cause gastroenteritis in piglets.
Median infectious dose (ID50) of PRRSV for young pigs via aerosol exposure
The objective of this research was to quantify the likelihood of PRRSV transmission via aerosol as a function of exposure dose. This data is critical to understanding of airborne transmission of PRRSV between pigs, within herds, and between herds.
Optimal combinations of acute phase proteins for detecting infectious disease in pigs
Combinations of APPs allowed the detection of disease more sensitively than any individual APP and the best three-protein combinations were CRP, apoA1, pigMAP and CRP, apoA1, Hp, respectively, closely followed by the two-protein combinations CRP, pigMAP and apoA1, pigMAP, respectively.
Brazil will resume exporting pork to South Africa
On June 29 the South African Minister of Agriculture announced the opening of their markets to the importation of pork from Brazil, which had been suspended after the detection of Foot and Mouth Disease in Brazil in 2005.
Korea - Gov’t to introduce pork tracking system
Korea aims to introduce a tracking system for all pork sold on the local market starting in 2014 to make it easier to recall substandard products, the government said yesterday.
Spain - CISA added to the list of national laboratories authorised to handle the live FMD virus
Spain has officially informed the Commission that the Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA), Valdeolmos, Madrid, complies with the requirements laid down in Article 65 of Directive 2003/85/EC. Spain requested that the CISA be added to the list of national laboratories, authorised to handle the live foot-and- mouth disease virus, set out in Part A of Annex XI to that Directive.
Bulgaria - Commission reduces area covered by measures due to Foot and Mouth Disease
Since no new outbreaks have been reported since 7 April 2011 and surveillance has been implemented with satisfactory results, the Commission adopted today a decision reducing the affected areas.
Vietnam - More than 45,000 animals die of foot-and-mouth disease
A foot-and-mouth epidemic has broken out in 39 provinces, affecting more than 150,000 head of cattle. More than 45,000 animals have died or been destroyed, including over 5,000 buffalos, 938 cows, 37,760 pigs and 329 goats.
European Union - Different options for replacing the current EU rules for co-financing of animal emergency measures
In this report the results of the investigation regarding the different options for replacing the current EU rules for co-financing of emergency measures are described. Five different policy options are evaluated and the economic impact, likelihood, timescale, magnitude of direct and consequential/indirect costs and monetization of impacts are assessed. Special emphasis is given on the feasibility of an EU harmonized framework for a Cost and Responsibility Sharing Schemes (CRSS).