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United Kingdom: sales of antimicrobial products, antiprotozoals, antifungals and coccidiostats in 2010

The Veterinary Medecine Directorate has published a report on the sales of antimicrobial products authorised for use as veterinary medicines, antiprotozoals, antifungals and coccidiostats in the UK.

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TOPIGS imports top genetics into China

TOPIGS has successfully imported 1003 top breeding pigs to China. These animals originate from TOPIGS nucleus farms in Canada. The great grandparent pigs are the top of the TOPIGS breeding pyramid and have the highest SPF health status.

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Bulgaria: Experts from the FSA initiated a meeting with his Turkish colleagues on measures against FMD

At the initiative of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency a working meeting with the Turkish Veterinary Services was held in connection with the introduced control measures for FMD in the sanitary cordon of Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister supports idea of creating grain pool with Russia, Kazakhstan

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov suggested Kazakhstan returning to the idea of a tripartite Black Sea grain pool, involving Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia.

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Organic diet for organic pigs and poultry

In a new research project, scientists from Aarhus University and from universities in Switzerland, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, among others, will develop organic feeding strategies for the European pig and poultry market based solely on organic products.

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Chile and Vietnam signed a Free Trade Agreement

Under this agreement 73% of Chilean exports will enter Vietnam duty-free, while the rest of the products will begin to benefit under two tranches in year 3 and year 15.

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Netherlands: No limit to giant factory farm size

The cabinet has no plans to introduce a maximum size for factory farms and there are so few at the moment there is no need for the government to intervene, junior environment minister Henk Bleker told parliament on Wednesday.

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S. Korea's imports of pork more than double in 2011

South Korea reported a more than two- fold growth in pork imports as of early November this year compared to the same period last year.

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UK genetics and support win German franchise

World class genetics, backed by advanced technical support, has clinched a major franchise contract for UK based JSR Genetics, in the form of a new breeding company, JSR Hybrid Deutschland GmbH.

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Russia: causes of the spread of ASF

According to Russian authorities, among the main causes of the spread of the disease is the movement of the ASF virus among wild boar...

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South Korea ratifies FTA with United States

The National Assembly ratified the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement on Tuesday.

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France - Use of PAP in feed: ANSES considers that the conditions have not been fully satisfied

In an opinion and a report published last week ANSES notes the progress made in organisation of the industries. It nevertheless considers that the conditions for safe use of processed animal proteins have not, to date, been fully satisfied.

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Kathryn Adams appointed to Pork CRC board

Agricultural scientist and lawyer, Kathryn Adams, has been appointed as an Independent Director to the Board of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, replacing Nigel Smith who retired after serving for a total of four years on the boards of this CRC and its predecessor, the CRC for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry.

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Benefits from recording feed conversion

“Efficient feed conversion is the most important economic trait in pig production yet, as an industry, we are quite poor at measuring it,” Ed Sutcliffe, geneticist and technical director of pig-breeding company ACMC told a meeting of Northamptonshire Quality Pig Producers’ Association at Moulton College, near Northampton.

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Ukraine: The number of pigs is decreasing, but the pork production is growing

The number of pigs decreased in October, in comparison with the previous month. The difference in quantity is 67.1 thousand pigs or 1%.

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Favorable ruling from the WTO for Mexico and Canada on United States labeling regulations

The World Trade Organization ruled that the law requiring labeling the origin of meat imposed by the United States (COOL) is an obstacle to international trade.