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To mark the 10th anniversary of its creation the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO) is launching an on-line discussion on European health and consumer policy. A dedicated channel on the Debate Europe forum will be open in all EU official languages from 14 September to 9 October 2009.

The Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Monday that foot-and-mouth disease was now in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highland) province of Dak Nong and central provinces of Quang Ngai, Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Ha Tinh.

There were reports of a new unexplained syndrome of diarrhoea in young piglets from Denmark and France at the first European Symposium on Porcine Health Management in Copenhagen at the end of August.

The Bulgarian veterinary authorities have informed the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of classical swine fever.

Wageningen UR (University and Research Centre) and French research institute INRA (l’Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) are planning intensive future collaboration.

The veterinary authorities have sent a report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD).

An outbreak of blue ear disease (PRRS) was reported this week in Vietnam’s southern province of Bac Lie in the Mekong Delta.

A new consumer Web site was unveiled Sept. 9 at www.foodsafety.gov by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, co-chairs of the Obama Administration's Food Safety Working Group.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness – the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), where food industry officials must use to alert the FDA quickly, through an electronic portal when they find their products might sicken or kill people or animals.

The Danish Food Ministry increases its efforts to fight salmonella in pig meat.

New legislation addressing the growing need for veterinary services is under consideration in the House of Representatives. The legislation addresses the shortage of veterinarians especially in the areas of food animal medicine and public health.

AASV, National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council have been working diligently with State Animal Health Officials (SAHO) and the USDA to develop a response plan to direct actions in the event that the novel H1N1 Pandemic Influenza strain should be suspected or confirmed in a U.S. pig herd.

Nearly two-thirds of China’s consumers stopped eating pork in the early stages of the H1N1 influenza outbreak this year, and more than one in five consumers in the world’s largest pork market still believe that eating pork can result in catching the flu virus, according to a survey of 1,200 Chinese consumers commissioned last month by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).