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They pledged to strengthen regulation of antimicrobials, improve knowledge and awareness, and promote best practices — as well as to foster innovative approaches using alternatives to antimicrobials and new technologies for diagnosis and vaccines.

The results show that EU citizens are concerned about the use of veterinary medicines and their impact on human health.

The Romanian pig producers have asked, repeatedly, for the live pigs trade authorisation to the EU, because Romania has been free from CSF for more than 8 years.

New FAO Action Plan aims to help countries equip their agricultural sectors to respond to growing threat.

The prevalence of T. gondii in the tested ham samples was 8.84%, and the researchers found significant differences between the samples of different brands.

It is important that producers immediately report any suspicion of vesicular disease to their herd veterinarian and CFIA so that further investigation can be pursued.

During the first half of 2016, the European pork exports have reached 2,087,860 tonnes, and this entails an increase by 43.8%

Last July, the European Commission adpoted an Implementing Decision regarding the authorisation of all the veterinary drugs containing 'colistin' in combination with other oral antimicrobial drugs.

On September 15, Manitoba’s Chief Veterinary Office (CVO) confirmed positive test results for porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) from a southeastern Manitoba sow barn.

Regarding pork, the production during this semester has increased by 7.17% with respect to the same period in 2015 (1,951,899 tonnes).

A review of preparedness to ASF carried out by the EU Veterinary Emergency Team (CVET) for Romania and Hungary, due to their proximity with non-EU countries that may represent a specific ASF risk like Ukraine and Moldova, and for Estonia.

CME will concurrently incorporate negotiated formula purchases into the final settlement calculation methodology for all listed months of the Contract and commencing with the October 2016 contract month and beyond.

The meat production estimates show that the highest growth rates will be for chicken (+3.0% annually) and for pork (+2.9% annually).

The Danish pig census as of July 1st was 12.3 million heads: this entails a decrease by 2.6% with respect to the same period in 2015.

FAO's trade-weighted index-tracking international market prices for five major food commodity groups, reversed its July drop and rose in August to its highest level in 15 months.

More than £2 million has been awarded to scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK, to lead the most comprehensive study of the British pig industry ever conducted.