Spain launches prevention measures against the FMD outbreak declared in Morocco
MAGRAMA is going to implement prevention and biosecurity measures immediately along their borders in order to avoid the introduction of Foot and Mouth disease in Spain.
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Chinese experts inspected Russian pork and beef processing plants
The mission of the Chinese delegation was aimed at evaluation of the current control system used to regulate animal product manufacturing and ensure disease freedom in the areas as well as at the inspection of the Russian plants interested in exportation of the their products in China.
CDC launches improved online foodborne outbreak search tool
The updated Foodborne Outbreak Online Database Tool (FOOD Tool) lets users search nearly 20 years of outbreak data by state, food, or germ.
Ukrainian Parliament has conducted a major reform of the food safety system
On September 20, 2015, The Ukrainian Parliament has conducted a major reform of the food safety system by implementing Law 1602.
USDA expects a record in European pork exports in 2015
Acording to FAS (USDA), elevated swine slaughter will result in an excess supply of pork that cannot be absorbed by the current level of EU demand. As a result, the EU is forecast to export a record volume of pork in 2015.
The EU approves the use of recycled hot water to eliminate microbiological contamination in meat
This Regulation approves the use of recycled hot water as a decontamination technique for carcasses after that, in September 2010 the EFSA drafted a favourable scientific judgement.
The FDA takes important steps in modernizing the food safety system
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took one of the most significant steps in decades to prevent foodborne illness.
Planning for Emergency Mass-Depopulation of Swine
Planning for Emergency Mass-Depopulation of Swine in Response to a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak - Mark Rice, North Carolina State University, from the 2015 World Pork Expo, June 3 - 5, 2015, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Evaluating the duration of a swine breeding herd PRRSV-free status and its relationship with measured risk
The article suggests measuring external risks in order to compare swine farms based on a numerical figure, and thus initiate corrective measures to improve and numerically verify the improvements achieved.
Intermingled Klebsiella pneumoniae populations between retail meats
Taken together, our results suggest that retail meat is a potential vehicle for transmitting virulent, antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from food animals to humans.
United Kingdom: zoonoses report 2013
Campylobacter continues to be the most commonly reported human gastrointestinal pathogen.
Panama: implementation of the National Technical Commission on Swine
The COTENAPOR is a consulting and assessment body on politics, technical, health and food harmlessness aspects, and pork products and byproducts.
Ireland: consultation process on Country of Origin Labelling of non-prepacked meat
Launch of a public consultation process on the extension of mandatory country of origin labelling rules to non-prepacked meat. Such information is already provided for beef sold loose without packaging, but not for other meats.
Mexico: speeding up of the agri-food products safe bilateral trade with US
The aim of these cooperation actions is to speed up and provide more safety to the bilateral trade operations, because it validates the health status of the goods automatically and it eliminates the submission of the original document by the importer.
PED: update on the present status within Europe
All sequenced PEDV isolates that were found recently within European countries were most closely related to so called S INDEL PEDV, which was originally described in the US in January 2014.
France: Cooperl fined for selling meat contaminated with Salmonella
The contaminated meat was delivered to companies (especially Russian, but also French) that produce ready-made food.