Page 37 of articles about biosecurity

The swine regulation, approved by Alberta's cabinet this week, will mean all of the province's 2.5 million pigs must come with travel documents as they're moved from farms to abattoirs.

Germany is to review the use of antibiotics in farm animals and possibly introduce new rules restricting their use.

China has banned the production, sale and use of clenbuterol tablets, a medicine used to treat bronchial asthma that has also been illegally used by farmers to make their pigs leaner.

An initial assessment by the FVO experts has found that the state system used to control residues of banned and harmful substances in animals, animal products and feeds in the Russian Federation is not absolutely equivalent to its EU counterpart.

A study assessing the impact of traceability and animal identification programs on the international market for red meat has been released by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Authorities have arrested 989 people over the last six months as part of a national crackdown on the manufacture and sale of clenbuterol.

Livestock farmers, traders and processors can now freely transport their animals and meat products within the country, as long as appropriate permits are secured from concerned agencies of the Department of Agriculture.

Food-borne viruses are the second most important cause of food-borne outbreaks in the European Union (EU) after Salmonella. EFSA has published a review of the latest scientific knowledge on these viruses providing advice on possible measures to control and prevent their spread in the EU.

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.

Korea aims to introduce a tracking system for all pork sold on the local market starting in 2014 to make it easier to recall substandard products, the government said yesterday.

South Korea will introduce a livestock permit system starting next year to better regulate the local agricultural sector plagued by frequent outbreaks of animal diseases.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) issued updates to four Import Heath Standards for pig meat, pig meat products and by-products from Canada, the EU, Mexico and the USA.