Swine news - Pig health

The regulation will establish a national reference value for use, which will be defined according to the species and livestock classification.

African swine fever has returned to the Czech Republic after almost five years.

FDA launches interactive summary of biomass-adjusted antimicrobial sales data in food animals.

The $23.4 million program is designed to help Canada's pork industry prepare for the possibility of African swine fever entering the country.

For the full 2011-2021 period, overall sales of veterinary antibiotics decreased by 47% in this interval, reaching the lowest value ever reported.

African swine fever has been detected for the first time in the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz in wild boar.

The Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products has proposed a new working group to replace the voluntary European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption network.

Several wild boar carcasses infected with African swine fever virus have been found in the white zone of the Oder-Spree district.

The extension of the buffer zone a few kilometers to the west allows for the legal possibility of constructing the protection corridor.

Imports of live pigs during the first nine months of this year are again above the same period of the previous year.

Wild boar infected with African swine fever virus have been confirmed in the areas of Türkendorf, Bloischdorf, and Weskow.

The province of Batangas was selected as a pilot area in the implementation of the program.

Antibiotics sales for use in food-producing animals more than halved since 2014.

Establishment of a public-private partnership within the framework of the Swine Industry Pilot Program on biosecurity and disease control based on international standards of the World Organization for Animal Health.

These are the findings of EFSA’s scientific opinion assessing the risk of spread of antimicrobial resistance among livestock during transport.

ASF has been detected on a farm with more than 39,000 animals in Timis County.

The restricted zone III in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg was lifted after three months of restrictions.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working with the pork and poultry industry to design traceability systems that make possible to know the origin, transit and final destination of the meat.

The restrictions applied after African swine fever was detected on a pig farm in the municipality of Emsbüren (Emsland district) were lifted on October 5.

Brazil has been free of the disease since 1984.

All 3,000 pigs on the affected farm in Gimpo - si, Gyeonggi-do will be culled.

Over 13,000 animals were culled on pig farms in Gangwon-do.