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USA - Grants extended to improve animal welfare

Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) has announced a call for proposals for its 2011-2012 Good Husbandry Grants. The Good Husbandry Grants program has funded nearly 100 projects across the country to improve farm animal welfare.

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New Zealand - Survey of antimicrobial resistant foodborne bacteria produces pleasing results

A new Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) survey has shown no human health implications from antimicrobial resistance in New Zealand food-producing animals and fresh produce.

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José Graziano da Silva to head FAO

FAO member nations today elected José Graziano da Silva of Brazil as its new Director-General.

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European Union - Statistics on the food chain: From farm to fork

An Eurostat overview shows that there were just over 48 million people employed within the EU27’s food chain in 2008, equivalent to more than a fifth of total employment.

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New ACMC multiplier herd established in Spain

A new 440 sow multiplier herd has been established in Spain to meet the growing demand for AC1 gilts, the prolific hybrid developed by British-based international pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd.

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EU pig producers to gain more value from wheat-based diets

The EU Commission has granted Danisco Animal Nutrition authorisation for the use of its heat stable xylanase (Danisco Xylanase) in wheat-based feed for piglets and pigs for fattening.

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G20 agrees measures to tackle high global food prices

Agriculture ministers from the G20 group of nations have agreed a series of measures they hope will reduce food price volatility and boost supplies. In a communique following a two day meeting in Paris ministers said they would adopt a new collective rapid response system to help calm any spikes in prices.

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Italy - Outbreak of African Swine Fever confirmed in Bono

The veterinary services of the Sassari province in Italy confirmed last week the presence of African Swine Fever on a swine farm located in the Bono area.

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European Union - Commission adopts regulation harmonising controls for non-authorised GM material in feed

The European Commission adopted today a regulation that harmonises the implementation of the zero tolerance policy on non-authorised genetically modified (GM) material in feed.

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USA - US House restores food safety lab funding

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment restoring funding to the National Animal Health Laboratory Network after it was cut from the 2012 Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative.

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Ukraine - Meat production to grow by 3-4% in 2011

A reduction in the profitability of the production of all types of meat, which is expected this year due to a significant rise in the price of feed, will trigger a slowdown in the pace of production growth and a further redistribution of the market.

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G20 - Agriculture Ministers meet to discuss food security

G20 Agriculture Ministers are meeting in Paris today to discuss measures to address the problem of high food prices and market volatility.

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Iowa Pork Producers continue half-century of aid to Japan

The people of Iowa have a special connection with Japan dating back more than 50 years. When two typhoons devastated the Japanese prefecture of Yamanashi in 1959, Iowans stepped forward to help rebuild the region’s hog industry by donating 35 hogs and 1,500 tons of corn to feed them.

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Cherkizovo Group launches production at the meat processing plant in the Kaliningrad region

OJSC Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia's leading integrated and diversified meat producers, is pleased to announce the launch of operations at the meat processing plant in the Kaliningrad region acquired in 2010.

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Boehringer Ingelheim satellite symposium highlights PCV2 landmarks

An important anniversary in the history of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) has been marked at a special international pig veterinary satellite symposium held in Barcelona, Spain in June 2011 as part of the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases. In 2011, this meeting heard, it is 15 years since the name PMWS was first proposed by Canadian investigators Ted Clark and John Harding for the novel wasting disease of growing pigs that they were observing in herds in Western Canada

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New board for new Pork CRC

Ensuring Australian pork is a high integrity meat that is welfare optimal, environmentally responsible, safe and nutritious is the focus of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork.