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Figures published by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture show a decrease in Spanish swine livestock of 2.47% during the first eight months of 2008. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) said more than permitted levels of Enrofloxacin and Ciprofloxacin were found in a 23-ton shipment of pork that was brought into the country on Feb. 9. Tests showed that the pork from the meat exporter identified as 10.06579G had 0.7 parts per million (ppm) of the agents in the pork it shipped. This is higher than the max limit of 0.1 ppm set by Seoul.

Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) Thursday announced the suspension of pork, pork products and dairy products import from Taiwan. The announcement followed an official confirmation of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at two farms in Taiwan.

Iowa State University researchers have found that certain antibiotics encounter more resistance from Campylobacter coli than other antibiotics, with some variation of resistance levels between farms.

Forty-six people in China's southern province of Guangdong have suffered food poisoning after eating pig organs that contained an animal feed additive.

The Vietnamese veterinary authorities have sent an Immediate Notification to the OIE about a new outbreak of trichinellosis in pigs.

According to a study carried out at the University of Wageningen the total veterinary use of antibiotics increased by 3% between 1999 and 2007 with an increase in the therapeutic use of antibiotics of 83%. (Original in Dutch. Read Google translation here).

To aid in controlling the spread of PRRSV, researchers at the University of Minnesota's Swine Disease Eradication Center (SDEC) compiled the Biosecurity Protocols for the Prevention of Spread of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus.

More than 200 slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh, in Northern India will have biogas plants within a year.

The Conservative Party has launched a new campaign for clearer meat labelling, which, it says, will empower consumers and give them confidence to buy British. The Conservative’s ‘Honest Food’ campaign is aimed at getting a compulsory ‘country-of-origin’ labelling scheme enshrined in law, so that meat products labelled as British can only come from animals born and reared in this country.

The Department of Agriculture in Central Mindanao has quarantined livestock farms in several towns in North Cotabato province whose pigs tested positive for hog cholera.

First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov told a news conference Russia would be able to fill its poultry meat needs "within the next two to three years" and that "we also have a chance to fully provide ourselves with pork within three to four years." He said Russia produced 8 percent more pork and 18 percent more poultry in 2008 than in 2007.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the results of a pork request for referendum that shows too few pork producers and importers want a continuance referendum on the Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA would ask the U.S. meat industry to voluntarily opt for stricter labels listing specifics about the country of origin.

North China’s Henan province is expected to supply 400,000 live pigs to Hong Kong consumers in 2011, accounting for 25 per cent of the total live pig sales in Hong Kong, according to local government sources.

Collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention led to the two-year pilot program that began in September 2008, and it may result in a permanent USDA-funded swine influenza surveillance program, according to the USDA. The program would include sharing of information on human and swine infections.