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The European Commission adopted a financial decision to grant a total of €15 million for 2013 to support the 44 EU Reference Laboratories (EU-RLs) designated for food and feed safety and animal health.

The German and Dutch authorities have informed of the presence of feeds containing maize contaminated with aflatoxins.

The undersupply of protein feed and the high import demand for it are long-standing issues in the EU where the rate of self-sufficiency amounts only to about 33%.

China intends to require U.S. exporters to show that a third party has independently confirmed that no ractopamine residue is present in meat, according to USMEF.

The new Catalogue, for the first time, sets limits for residues of processing aids in by-products for feed use, for example from the food industry.

A Commission Regulation to re-authorise the use of processed animal proteins (PAPs) derived from non-ruminant farmed animals (i.e. mainly from pigs and poultry) in fish feed entered into force last week.

Rosselkhoznadzor considered it necessary to impose temporary restrictions on importation of pork and beef from the USA to Russia. The restrictions will be imposed from February 11, current year.

While pig feed production dropped by 2%, cattle and poultry feed have seen their production grow respectively by +1.5 and +1%.

The Feed Manual is designed to increase safety and feed quality at the production level both for industrial production and on farm mixing.

The feed can go for cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, horses or other animals.

Corn for grain production is estimated 13 percent below 2011.

The production of compound feeds for swine has undergone an increase slightly higher than a 4%.

Animal feed prices in Thailand are likely to increase by 7-8% this year.

China's grain output rose 3.2 percent year on year to hit 589.57 million tonnes in 2012, marking the ninth consecutive year of growth.

The agreement aims to facilitate and strengthen cooperation between the two organizations, in particular with the regards to the prevention and management of infectious diseases, including zoonotic disease.

Ministry of Agrarian Policy sees no reason to limit the exports of wheat.