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Wageningen UR Livestock Research is studying the growth and feed conversion of fattening pigs. The most important success factors which contribute to a good performance are associated with hygiene, nutrition, shelter, climate, delivery management, and structured working methods. The most important points where improvements can be made are associated with the quality of the pigs, external and internal biosecurity, and feeding.

EU animal welfare rules must be more rigorously enforced, with more inspections and effective penalties, said the Agriculture Committee. It nonetheless welcomed a reduction in harmful antibiotics in animal feed, further to an EU ban.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 242/2010 of 19 March 2010 creating the Catalogue of feed materials.

Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has found a positive link between feeding encapsulated Zinc oxide and reducing post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) in piglets.

The purpose of this document is to provide an inventory of guidance and test methodologies that have been developed or are in the process of being developed on risk assessment related to food and feed safety.

The latest national statistics produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on GB Animal Feed were released on 11th March 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. Statistics on GB Animal Feed include data for the period November 2009, December 2009 and January 2010 with percentage change for corresponding period last year.

The Agency's Board agreed to the implementation of a single approach to front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling that will best help consumers make healthier choices when they buy food.