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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) last week warned that food prices for basic commodities hit record highs last month, fuelling fears of inflation, protectionism, unrest and reduced demand from emerging economies.

According to the information provided by Russian State Statistics Committee as of December 1, 2010, the population of pigs totaled 18 million which is 1.6% (0.3 million) less compared with December 1, 2009.

During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the central government has spent 21.2 billion yuan on the development of biogas in rural areas.

In the last nine to ten months Turkey has reported over 1,100 outbreaks of FMD in all regions on the Asian (Anatolia) side of the country, many of them identified as FMD strain O.

Belarus has imposed a ban on the import of pork from Leningrad Oblast of Russia after an outbreak of African swine fever in the region.

An agreement signed by the French pig meat industry on 15th December stipulates that from now on for fresh meat and offal and before 31st March 2011 for processed products, the country of origin will appear on labels of fresh pig meat and offal and pig meat products.

Following a request from the European Commission, the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare was asked to deliver a Scientific Opinion on the welfare of animals during transport. An ad hoc expert working group was established in response to the request which made use of the information provided by stakeholders during the Technical Meeting held on 13 October 2010. The scientific opinion on the welfare of animals during transport was adopted by the AHAW Panel on 2nd December 2010.

South Korea has ordered the culling of 1.34 million livestock since late November to stem its severest foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in history, the government said Monday.

Philippine chicken meat and pork imports rose more than 50% and 68.6%, respectively, in the first 10 months of 2010.

On January 2, the Polish Ministry of Agriculture announced its intent to create a joint Food and Veterinary Inspection Service by January 1, 2012.

The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is aware that there is a likelihood of a shortage of the injectable drug, iron dextran, for the prevention and treatment of iron deficiency in baby pigs.

High levels of dioxin were found in pigs early on Tuesday at a farm in the county of Verden, Lower Saxony, officials said.

On January 2, 2011, the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation #853 dd. October 20, 2010, “On imposition of the temporary ban for exports of the certain range of agricultural products from the territory of the Russian Federation” came into force.

China’s central government will invest more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to ensure food hygiene over the next five years.