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EU animal welfare rules must be more rigorously enforced, with more inspections and effective penalties, said the Agriculture Committee. It nonetheless welcomed a reduction in harmful antibiotics in animal feed, further to an EU ban.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 242/2010 of 19 March 2010 creating the Catalogue of feed materials.

The purpose of this document is to provide an inventory of guidance and test methodologies that have been developed or are in the process of being developed on risk assessment related to food and feed safety.

The latest national statistics produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on GB Animal Feed were released on 11th March 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. Statistics on GB Animal Feed include data for the period November 2009, December 2009 and January 2010 with percentage change for corresponding period last year.

Aside from causing daily power outages in parts of the Philippines, the ongoing dry spell is also causing the prices of chicken and pork to increase. A party-list representative estimates retail prices of the two types of meat typically bought by Filipino households may go up by $0.10 a kilo (5 pesos) by April of May.

A committee has been formed to revise the National Research Council (NRC) publication "Nutrient Requirements of Swine."

The European Commission announced today its intention to come up with a proposal by the summer to allow more choice to Member States in deciding whether to cultivate GMO's. Under the current legal framework, as decided by the Council and the European Parliament, the Commission adopted today two decisions concerning the Genetically Modified Amflora potato: the first authorises the cultivation of Amflora in the EU for industrial use, and the second relates to the use of Amflora's starch by-products as feed.

Foreign companies and individuals will not be allowed to directly sell imported animal feed and feed additives in China, a draft regulation made public said.

China will require tighter controls over animal feed and feed additives after widespread cases of illegal feed additives have led to human poisonings in the last few years.

According to USDA Agricultural Projections to 2019, global economic recovery with steady growth provides an improved foundation for demand for crops over the next several years and through the remainder of the projection period to 2019.

The demand for animal feed raw materials in Thailand is forecast to be higher in 2010 in line with an expected rise in animal population.

All EU Member States will step up their border controls on a number of pre-listed products -ranging from peanuts to fruit and vegetables- originating from outside the EU in an effort to limit possible harm to human and animal health. These controls are foreseen in Regulation (EC) No. 669/2009 which enters into application and provides, for the first time ever, for a set of common rules for official controls on imports of certain feed and food of non-animal origin.

The Emerging Risks Unit (EMRISK) was requested by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to develop a system for the routine monitoring of data from the Rapid Alert System on Food and Feed (RASFF), with the main objective of describing potentially relevant patterns of notifications for the detection of emerging risks and a timely reporting.

According to figures from Coop de France Nutrition animale/Snia, the production of animal feed has suffered a reduction of 5.6% during the third quarter of 2009, although this reduction is not as big as that observed in the two previous quarters in which the decreases were by 7.7% and 7.2%.

A total of 250,000 tonnes of feed wheat is expected to begin arriving in the Philippines this month until March.

The DFG has approved the establishment of 17 new Collaborative Research Centres as of 1 January 2010. This decision was made recently by the relevant Grants Committee in Bonn. The new centres will initially be funded for four years with a total of €132 million. In addition, 20 percent overhead funding for indirect costs will also be provided for each project. The new CRCs include the development of an antibiotic-free diet for swine.