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The Commission adopted proposals on veterinary medicinal products and medicated feed, to improve the health and wellbeing of animals, to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the EU and to foster innovation.

FAO's monthly food price index registered another drop in August, continuing a 5-month downward run and reaching its lowest level since September 2010.

Positive samples were collected on August 9, 2013 (3 samples) and October 6, 2013.

Estonia becomes the fourth country in the EU to notify cases of PPA.

In Q2 2014 the meat production amounted to 114 468 tonnes and increased in all categories, year-on-year.

For January-July, exports established a record pace in both volume (1.32 million mt, +7 percent) and value ($4.0 billion).

Soybean imports will shrink in the second half as demand declines, the result of a slowdown in meat demand and high import volumes in the first six months.

These studies have resulted in new methods, high-throughput approaches, which can identify genes important for the survival of MRSA in pigs.

The agreement means that a total of five Irish pig processing establishments have been accredited to produce pork for export to Vietnam, while another establishment has been approved for cutting.

Italy is the fifth feed manufacturer in Europe, with a total invoicing of €7.3 billion.

The state of foot-and-mouth disease in the north of Africa worsens with the notification of the first outbreak in Algeria (where the last outbreak had been notified in 1999), and the spreading of the disease to Tunisia.

The EFFORT consortium is made up of 20 partners from 10 different European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland.

In order to focus animal health control measures and to prevent the spread of African swine fever is necessary to replace the Annex to Implementing Decision 2014/178/EU to include the relevant areas of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

In 2007, pig MRSA of the CC398 type comprised only 2% of all notified MRSA cases in Denmark. This year, the type presently accounts for more than 35% of cases.

Yield prospects for grain maize are excellent at the moment, forecasts are 11 % above the level of last year and the last five year’s average.

Last June, the Government Decree no. 95/22014, that establishes the regulations on the sales of feed products derived from fresh or processed meat from the 'porco preto', was published in the Diário de República.