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In 2013, the total swine herd added up 13,487,588 heads; slightly lower than in year 2012 (13,759,913).

Since November 2013 the number of holdings that keep pigs for fattening has fallen by 900 (–3.9%) to about 22,700.

Other top exported product categories included wheat, non-specific food preparations, ice-cream, chocolate and confectionery, pig meat...

The IIAD, a DHS Science and Technology Center of Excellence, in partnership with the TCAT have developed a mobile CVI application to support veterinary practitioners submitting animal health certificate records from the field.

The outbreaks are located in Volgogradskaya (1 outbreak) and Kaluzhskaya, and they affect wild boars and domestic pigs.

During their meeting a protocol to modernize two countries' live swine protocol was signed.

Finally, Chongqing (China) will be the city that will host the IPVS congress in 2018.

The latest pig census in Denmark indicated that production would remain stable in the coming months.

For the month of April, total U.S. pork exports (muscle cuts plus variety meat) rose 11 percent over year-ago levels in volume to 192,924 metric tons (mt).

The exports of Spanish cured hams and shoulders grew by 11.9% in terms of volume during the first trimester of 2014.

A number of member States supported the Commission and considers that it would be extremely difficult and very expensive to apply to swine, sheep, goat and poultry meat, rules equivalent to those applicable to beef meat.

The outbreaks are located in the provinces of Cesar, Magdalena and Bolivar.

This is the first USDA conditional license granted for a PEDv vaccine since the initial outbreak.