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FAO raised considerably its world cereal production forecast for 2016 to 2 566 million tonnes, up 22 million tonnes from July projections.

Ukraine has exported a total of 1,340 tonnes of fresh ad frozen pork: 11 times less than the volume exported during the same period in 2015.

The potential new soldier in the fight against MRSA is a molecule called lugdunin produced by the bacterium Staphylococcus lugdunensis.

Major suppliers of pork meat to India are Belgium, Sri Lanka, Spain, Italy, and Netherland.

The sectors which have shown the greatest gains over the 12-month period are pigmeat (+ €986 million), wine (+ €511 million) and live animals (+ €502 million).

This Declaration comes 20 years after the original Cork Declaration of 1996 that established the basis for the EU's rural development policy.

Pig feed production holds the first place with 47% of the total feed produced (14,771,963 tonnes).

The cooperation of the two organisations will notably concern exchange of information and technical cooperation, in particular by focusing on best practices, policies and economic evaluations, related to animal health and welfare, veterinary drugs...

Between 2011 and 2015, the use of antibiotics in animal production dropped by more than half, going from 1,706 to 837 tonnes.

Two of the affected farms house more than 6,000 susceptible animals.

EFSA’s Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) recommends that copper content in complete feed for piglets should not exceed 25 mg per kg (down from 170 mg/kg).

FEFAC, Copa & Cogeca welcome endorsement by EU Commission of our EU code of good labelling practice for compound feed for food producing animals.

The new ASF cases have entailed an increase in the risk level and changes in different sections of the Annex of Decision 2014/709/UE, as well as the establishment of new provisional protection and surveillance zones.

Recently, the cases of African swine fever (ASF) have increased significantly in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. The reach of the evolution of the disease can be clearly seen on the maps that compare the outbreaks notified in 2016 with respect to the two previous years.

Porcine sapelovirus has been implicated in an acute outbreak of atypical neurologic disease.

This could make diagnosis of FMD strains cheaper and easier, as only one integrin would be needed to identify all strains of FMDV.