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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the availability of a compliance guideline for official establishments to control and reduce the spread of Salmonella in hog slaughter facilities.

Funded projects include research on novel marine derived agents for the control of salmonella in pork.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a new Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) for its field staff on actions they intend to take when finding Salmonella contamination in food for animals.

The new rules are based on an opinion of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and introduce a more risk-based approach to pig meat inspection.

Report shows the continued presence of resistance to a range of antimicrobials in Salmonella and Campylobacter. Nevertheless, co-resistance to two critically important antimicrobials, remains low.

Campylobacteriosis remains the most reported zoonotic disease in humans, with a continuous increase in reported cases over the last five years.

Overall 137 programmes have been selected for EU funding to tackle animal diseases that impact on human and animal health as well as trade.

There were 182 incidents of Salmonella in 2011, which is comparable to recent years.

The current meat juice testing for salmonella antibodies will be suspended on 1 July 2012.

Resistance to several antimicrobials was commonly detected in zoonotic bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter which are the main causes of reported food-borne infections in the EU.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union for 2010.

Following the request of some Member States the Commission has proposed an increased rate of co-financing from 50% to 60% for eligible measures.

A European Union-wide baseline survey on Salmonella in holdings with breeding pigs was carried out in 2008. Now EFSA publishes the results from analyses of the associations of 19 pen- or holding- level factors and Salmonella positivity of pens in holdings with breeding pigs. Also the results from correlation analyses between Salmonella prevalence in breeding and in production holdings, from analyses of the Salmonella serovar distribution across the European Union, and from analyses of an additional within-holding prevalence study carried out by five Member States are also presented.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that it will expand and move ahead on the Salmonella Initiative Program (SIP) to help reduce Salmonella in raw meat and poultry products.