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The doctrine shall include several indexes, which will show the target levels of the country's food security, including per capita agricultural food consumption, share of imports of domestic consumption, indicative prices for some major agricultural food products.

Except for livestock, all farm subsectors registered output gains during the January to September 2008 period.

Trichina worms have returned to Germany. The worms were found at a slaughterhouse in a pig from a private home.

U.S. hog producers will import wheat from Britain and Brazil due to the high cost of U.S. corn and feed grain.

Although human infections with swine flu viruses are uncommon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on a person who was infected with a swine influenza A/H1N1 virus.

German exports of pork will be approximately 1.8 million tonnes, a growth of 20%.

OIE has confirmed the presence of clasical swine fever in wild boars in Javnica (Sisacko-Moslavacka).

The OIE has informed about de reoccurrence of classical swine fever in Russia.

The Health Check will modernise, simplify and streamline the CAP and remove restrictions on farmers, thus helping them to respond better to signals from the market and to face new challenges.

The final CAFO (confined animal feeding operations) were published in the Federal Register on November 20, 2008 and will become effective on December 20, 2008.

To assure that consumers are eating safe meat the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) has started to inspect public markets, slaughterhouses and post-abbatoir operations with the assistance of law enforcement agencies.

Chilean pork exports are expected to fall by around 15% this year, following the closure of the South Korean market due to concerns over dioxin contamination.

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today appealed to world leaders to meet together next year to design a new agricultural order and find $30 billion a year to eradicate hunger from the Earth once and for all.

The positive opinion to the Rural Development programme of the Portuguese national rural network for the financial period 2007-2013 marks the end of the process of approving the 94 different regional and national rural development programmes that make up the EU rural development policy.

The Canadian Wheat Board reports, because of high levels of DON, visual inspection of winter wheat and spring wheat crops in fusarium affected areas of Manitoba is proving to be unreliable.

The exports for the 8 months totaled 50,000 tons, a drop of 54% on 2007.