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A new venture to benchmark the cost of labour for particular tasks in British pig production has gained funding from BPEX’s Innovation Fund. The technique was originally developed to help bring down costs in the dairy industry. It is the first time the labour efficiency scheme has been applied to the pig sector.

European Comission has adopted the decision to include Sicily in the list of Italian regions free of swine vesicular disease.

European Union pigmeat production is forecast to be down 3 percent next year.

Following the detection of the Ebola-Reston virus in pigs in the Philippines, FAO, OIE and WHO announced that the government of the Philippines has requested the three agencies send an expert mission to work with human and animal health experts in the Philippines to further investigate the situation.

European Comission has aproved the inclusion of the Netherlands in the list of Member States free of Aujeszky’s disease and of Hungary in the list of Member States where an approved national control programme for that disease is in place.

Mexico ended bans on meat imports from five more U.S. plants that were decertified by the country last week. A total of 25 plants have been cleared to ship to Mexico, out of about 30 that lost export certification last week. Mexico halted shipments from the pork, beef and poultry plants on Dec. 23 after they failed to meet quality and technical standards, according to the USDA.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revoking the order prohibiting the extralabel use of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals.

This rule relieves certain FMD-related prohibitions and restrictions on imports from Surrey County, England, while ensuring the continued protection of U.S. livestock from FMD.

Although co-infection in pigs is not unusual, this is the first time globally that an Ebola-Reston virus has been isolated in swine

EFSA’s Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection has published an analysis of the risk factors related to Salmonella in slaughter pigs within the European Union.

All restaurants serving chicken, pork and Kimchi should make public the origin of their ingredients from Monday.

All these animals will be removed from the food chain and their bodies rendered and incinerated abroad.

In accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition, the Commission has established a Community Register of feed additive. Revision 38 was released on 22 December 2008.

During the meeting with the Head of Federal Agency for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor), Sergey Dankvert, Ariel Bucardo Rocha, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Nicaragua expressed the interest in development of trade relations between Russia and Nicaragua, in particular, in organization of supply of Nicaraguan agricultural products to Russia. Russian party proposed to start inspections at the end of January – February 2009.

Average prices for agricultural products of all agricultural enterprises grew by 17% in January-November 2008 against the corresponding period of 2007. Animal product prices were up by 50% as well. In particular, prices for cattle, pigs and poultry were up by 65.3%, 72.5%, and 52% respectively.