Chinese gov't urges food safety
More efforts will be made to improve food safety in meat products and punish those who illegally purchase, produce or sell sick or dead animals.
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European Union: measures to prevent the introduction into the Union of the African swine fever virus
It is appropriate to limit the obligation to clean and disinfect trucks only to those trucks transporting live animals.
All-in-all-out strategy
The difficulties of carrying out an all-in-all-out strategy correctly...
Cleaning & Disinfection
This video by BPEX explains some details about the cleaning and disinfection process on a pig farm.
Biosecurity practices in Spanish pig herds
The findings revealed that medium-sized to large farms located in high pig density regions reported higher biosecurity measures.
Salmonella in wild birds: a risk for swine?
The role that wild birds can play in the spreading of this infection cannot be underrated.
Help for pig producers to keep on top of cleaning and disinfection
BPEX is offering help for pig producers with their cleaning and disinfection (C&D) – made harder now as temperatures rise above zero, thaw sets in and units become muddier.
Relationship between biosecurity measures and production, health and treatment in pig herds
It is generally believed that biosecurity measures in pig production improve performance and health status of the pigs, but limited quantitative data is available to support this hypothesis.
The level of dietary fiber and sanitary conditions affects growth and health in weanling pigs
The inclusion of high-fiber diets just after weaning in poor sanitary conditions may reduce piglet weight gain.
USA: FDA increases dose of ionizing radiation to treat meat
FDA concludes that the proposed use of irradiation to provide for the safe use of a 4.5 kGy maximum dose of ionizing radiation to treat meat is safe.
Ecolab collaborates with China's State Food and Drug Administration to provide food safety training
Ecolab and China's State Food and Drug Administration Institute for Executive Development (SFDAIED) are again partnering to conduct food safety training that aligns with the recent introduction of China's five-year food safety plan and reaches workers within the country's food service industry.
Salmonella contamination sources
The farms can be free from PRRS, enzootic pneumonia, atrophic rhinitis, pleuropneumonia, scabies, swine dysentery, and so on. However, why is it we are still unable to characterize farms as Salmonella-free?
Disinfection protocols reduce the amount of porcine circovirus type 2 in contaminated 1:61 scale model livestock transport vehicles
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of disinfection protocols on porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in 1:61 scale model livestock trailers and determine the infectivity of PCV2 DNA detected using a bioassay.
Link between Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome (HBS) and liquid feed
Sudden death due to HBS is a devastating, stealthy phenomenon that affects pigs in growth and finishing phases. The heaviest animals die, sometimes a few over several days, or a few per week, but in a constant succession that can last (up to nine months in Italy’s case, where heavier animals are killed).
Danisco: The Executive Board and members of the Board of Directors accept offer from DuPont
The Executive Board and members of the Board of Directors have today accepted DuPont's offer of DKK 665 per share.