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While Chile’s chicken exports increased by 61.5% compared with the previous year, pig meat exports decreased by 9% mainly due to the temporary closure of the Japanese and South Korean markets after the detection of dioxins above the permitted levels in several cargoes. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The OIE has informed about de reoccurrence of foot and mout disease (serotype Asia 1) and a new strain of the disease (serotype A) in China.

The U.S. government's final rule on mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) for meat and other foods will go back to U.S. President Barack Obama's new agriculture secretary for review. Obama has directed U.S. federal officials to delay for 60 days the effective date of regulations passed in the Bush administration's final days that haven't yet taken effect, the Reuters news service reported Wednesday.

Chief of the veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry Vitalie Caraus told Infotag that in order to prevent the dissemination of this virus meat imports from Russia and other neighboring countries was prohibited for a certain period.

The standard states that the livestock used in naturally raised meat products: • Have been raised entirely without growth promotants and without antibiotics (except for ionophores used as coccidiostats for parasite control). • Have never been fed animal byproducts.

The objective of the Work Group is to promote policies aimed at allowing operators, agriculturists and breeders to receive the sufficient compensation corresponding to their activity.

Beef production grew by 2.7% up to 163.781 thousand tons, pork production was up 3% to 151.732 thousand tons, and poultry production increased by 16.8% to 128.927 thousand tons.

Protecting our Water, Soil and Air: A Code of Good Agricultural Practice for farmers, growers and land managers (the ‘CoGAP’) offers best practice advice for farmers to protect and enhance water, soil, and air quality in agricultural environments.

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has been confirmed as U.S. Agriculture Secretary.

Emission of nitrogen form agriculture has been reduced markedly since 1985.

Over the last few months there is evidence the disease, which has been relatively quiet for some time, has started to increase, with pockets of disease expanding particularly in the pig dense area of East Anglia, and north-east England.

Korea is becoming more attractive for Polish pork suppliers, especially now that the European Union has approved a budget for the promotion of pork products to Korea. Starting this year the Polish Chamber of Commerce along with suppliers will be promoting their products all over the nation, including the International Food Fair at KINTEX in May and a food promotion event at the Hyatt Hotel just before the big fair.

In the spring and summer of 2008 researchers from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences examined no less than 3,831 lactating sows on 98 different farms. The results showed that 17.2 percent of the lactating sows had shoulder ulcers to a greater or smaller degree on one or both shoulders.

Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald today said the State’s capacity to control and eradicate emergency animal diseases would be significantly enhanced by a new animal health database being rolled out across NSW.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Community Zoonoses Report for 2007. The Report shows that although figures varied considerably between Member States, Campylobacter infections still topped the list of zoonotic diseases in the European Union and that the number of cases due to Salmonella infections in humans fell for the fourth year in a row. Cases of listeriosis remained at the same level.