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This is the first edition of the FSIS Compliance Guide for a Systematic Approach to the Humane Handling of Livestock.

According to the published data, the census totals 24.59 million heads, and this represents a drop with respect to November 2012.

Commission authorizes the feed additive fumaric acid, belonging to the additive category ‘technological additives’ and to the functional group ‘preservatives’.

The French Ministers of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, and of Agriculture, Food and Forestry have signed two decrees for strengthening the battle against the contamination by nitrates.

Reports beginning with the week of September 15 show dramatic increases in cases in NC.

Vietnam’s imports of animal feed and raw material for animal feed production are estimated to touch USD 2.73 billion in the first 10 months of this year.

The pig meat sold with the "Velfærdsgrisen" label will come from pigs that have not had their tail docked and that have been raised with more straw bedding, and the sows will have been group-housed during their production cycle.

An innovative approach that combines multiple copies of the structural components (called epitopes) of the viruses that generate protective immunity in a single molecular platform.

U.S. hog farm numbers dropped by 70 percent over 1991-2009 while hog inventories remained stable.

The seventh action programme lists nine priority aims to be achieved by 2020, including protection of the environment and the strengthening of ecological resilience...

This proposed regulation would help prevent foodborne illness in both animals and people and is open for public comments for 120 days.

A lot of attention was paid to a possibility to expand imports of Russian poultry and pork products to Vietnam.

A virus DNA sequence that, if removed, makes the FMD virus harmless to animals, but still allows it to grow in cell culture.

The swine sector is the most important one in the Spanish stockbreeding industry.

The group will consist of producers, veterinarians and other industry partners.

In the old Member States, more than 20% of all holdings specialised in pig or poultry production have a standard output above EUR 500 000.