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A strategy to minimise the use of antibiotics constitutes the centrepiece of the amending act. It will enable the surveillance authorities to assess the frequency of antibiotic treatment on a farm and to compare it with other farms.

Total wheat stocks decreased 18.1% to 5.9 million tonnes, mostly the result of a decline of 890 500 tonnes (-33.3%) in on-farm stocks.

The Commission has adopted a proposal designed to apply new rules with regard to the publication of information on the beneficiaries of European agricultural funds.

As fixing a MRL is considered as setting a threshold under which the use the product is considered as safe, the new standard fixed by the Codex can be considered de facto as an authorisation of using ractopamine below the fixed MRL in food producing animals.

Mexican pork production forecast is 1.25 MMT CWE, approximately 2.5 percent higher than the 2012 Post estimate.

'Real Welfare' audits are going to be incorporated into the assurance scheme.

Government support to agriculture in OECD countries fell to 19% of total farm receipts in 2011, a record low driven by developments in international commodity markets.

The Danish agricultural Minister, Mette Gjerskov, has launched an Action Plan for organic production towards 2020.

Its purpose is to conduct activities to promote the consumption and demand for pork and enhance quality and technological innovation in the sector.

While the number of fattening pigs rose by 1.8% to 3.2 million, the female breeding herd saw a 0.8% decrease to 351 thousand.