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The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance informs that the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes temporary restrictions on import of all species of animals susceptible to FMD, products thereof and raw materials obtained from these animals from the territory of the Akmolinskaya Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation from 09.07.2010 due to occurrence of FMD in this territory.

In a survey from the Food Institute of Danish Technical University (DTU) there were salmonella in over ten percent of conventional indoor slaughter pigs, in seven percent of organic pigs, and in only five percent of outdoor pigs.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Russia. Russia is suffering from its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 2006.

When piglets are weaned from milk to solid food, their intestinal flora change, with a steep rise in the numbers of potentially harmful streptococci. This finding has come out of research done by Odette Pérez Gutiérrez, who developed a micro-array called the PIT (pig intestinal tract) chip with which she can quickly scan six hundred different types of bacteria on a glass slide in the lab.

Breeders in the northern province of Hai Duong were reluctant to raise pigs after the two-months' blue-ear epidemic, said Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

In 2008, 25 Member States submitted information on the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic bacteria to the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority. In addition, two countries that were not European Union Member States provided information for the report. Assisted by its contractor, the Technical University of Denmark, the European Food Safety Authority analysed all the data, the results of which are published in this Community Summary Report.

Dominican Republic ’s Agriculture Ministry and pork producers will adopt the joint measures needed to declare the country free of Classic Swine Fever so that meat can be exported, especially to the United States.

The Scottish pig industry and Quality Meat Scotland are taking action to promote high health status in the national pig herd and avoid thousands of pounds of losses through disease introduction.