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The Food Standards Agency is commissioning four pieces of research that will help gather evidence to modernise official controls on meat. The work forms part of the Future Meat Controls Research Programme. The driving force behind this programme is to improve public health by adopting a more risk- and evidence-based approach to meat production.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported a new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in China.

In December the National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (SENASA) initiated the national vaccination of 1,4 million pigs against classic swine fever.

Classical swine fever has been discovered in wild boars in a game husbandry "Znamenskoye", Ugransky, in Smolenskaya Oblast.

A new outbreak of ASF was reported out of the permanently affected area (the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasian Federal District) in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. The outbreak was reported at 7:45 on 18 February 2011 in the city of Dzershinsk in the backyard of V.N. Mukhin.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported the first occurrence of PRRS in Mongolia.

Since the last outbreak (31 January 2011) no change of the health status has been observed. Teams of National Veterinary Services perform daily clinical examinations of the susceptible animals in the municipalities of Tsarevo, Malko Tarnovo, Sredets, Primorsko and Sozopol (Burgas region).

Foot-and-mouth disease reappeared in 17 cities and provinces nationwide after being contained for three weeks, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The OIE has reported four new outbreaks of african swine fever in Tanzania.

South Korea will raise the volume limit of imported pork subject to its tariff quota system, in a bid to tame rising food costs.