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United States: USDA awards 36 Food Safety Grants, including $6.7 million for antimicrobial resistance

NIFA made the awards through the AFRI Food Safety program to protect consumers from microbial and chemical contaminants that may occur in the food chain, from production to consumption.

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FAO food price index drops again in March

The FAO Food Price Index continued to decline in March, dropping 1.5 percent from February and 18.7 percent (40 points) below its level a year earlier.

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World Health Day 2015: the event focuses on the importance of food safety

The theme for World Health Day 2015 provides the perfect opportunity to emphasise the importance of the animal health and public health services working together at national level to ensure food safety throughout the food chain.

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Smithfield Foods Plans $12 Million Investment in Cudahy, Wisconsin Facility

The plant is expected to be fully operational by December 2015

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Topigs Norsvin introduces online Sow Feed Monitor

The Topigs Norsvin Sow Feed Monitor is an online tool that offers nutritionists and farmers the possibility to make a comparison between the average sow herd condition and Topigs Norsvin’s sow condition recommendations.

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Lallemand Animal Nutrition Appoints New Swine Product Manager

Lallemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce the appointment of David Saornil as new Swine Product Manager.

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Korea: significant increase in FMD outbreaks

Since the resurgence of the disease in December last year, there are already 121 confirmed outbreaks.

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Spain: the agrifood sector exports represent 17% of the foreign trade

The agrifood, fishing and forestry exports have grown from 15.4% to 17% of the total of the foreign trade in 2014.

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European Union: latest information on pork private storage

According to the last report, up to 30 March, grants for storage have been requested for a total of 43,523 tonnes of pork.

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European Union: new rules on labelling the origin of fresh meat apply

New rules on the labelling of fresh, chilled or frozen meat (from sheep, goats, pigs and poultry) will apply from 1 April 2015.

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Updated model EPR templates available from BPEX

The revised Environmental Permitting Regulations model templates, designed to help producers with applications for a permit, are now available to all producers through the BPEX website.

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United States: National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

The Plan is designed to guide action by public health, healthcare, and veterinary partners in a common effort to address urgent and serious drug-resistant threats that affect people in the U.S. and around the world.

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Axcelera-P wins product innovation award at FIGAN show in Spain

Axcelera-P is a new technology for pigs that when offered from day 4 to weaning is shown to switch on lifetime performance in pigs, delivering significantly heavier pigs.

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Dominican Republic: the national agricultural pre-census will be conducted

The last national agricultural census in the Dominican Republic was conducted in 1982.

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United States: hogs and pigs inventory up 7 percent

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2015 was 65.9 million head. This was up 7 percent from March 1.

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Wetforum - IV Poznan Vetirinary Forum Health of Cattle and Pigs

On 19-22 March 2015 was held the 4th edition of Poznan Veterinary Forum in Poland. The main topic of this conference is focused on advances in management of swine and cattle herds’ health, which enables maximisation of productivity and increase of farms competitiveness.