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Brachyspira 30446 is a new species distinct from other species of Brachyspira and it does cause infection.

24 percent of consumers said meat raised without antibiotics was not available at the supermarket where they usually shop. Of this group, 82 percent said they would buy it if it were available.

With respect to food safety, there are no indications that differences exist between food products derived from healthy clones or their offspring – in particular milk and meat - from those of healthy, conventionally bred animals.

The volume will be similar to that which they exported over the same period in 2011.

The eleventh revised edition of the Nutrient Requirements of Swine builds on the previous editions published by the National Research Council.

Animal welfare rules must be better enforced, existing loopholes closed and offenders punished, not least because they also protect human health, by preventing the spread of animal-related diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

The Commission set the limits for the amount of ractopamine allowed in the tissues of pigs and cattle at 10 micrograms per kilogram of pig or cattle muscle, 40 micrograms per kilogram in liver and 90 micrograms per kilogram of the animals' kidneys.

Following vote at the Codex Alimentarius, the European Union reaffirms its position that an international standard for ractopamine is not justified.

Since the swine are from brucellosis and PRV free herds, they will not need to be tested for those diseases prior to change of ownership at the Texas market.

The general grain exports from Ukraine in the new MY (July 2012 - June 2013) may total nearly 26 mln tonnes.

As a result of rising feed prices, pig production costs are at a record high — 173p a kilo.

The signing of Strategic Plan for Strengthening Agricultural Cooperation will usher the existing agricultural cooperation into a new stage featuring all-round and in-depth cooperation as well as broader prospects.

During the first half of this year a total of 635 outbreaks of FMD have been detected in Turkey.

At the PIADC scientists have produced a molecular vaccine against one strain of FMD, that 1) does not use a live FMD virus for vaccine manufacture, and; 2) can be used to differentiate an infected from inoculated animal using common diagnostic tests.

The European Commission has approved 20 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries.

U.S. farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn, up 5 percent from last year, making it the highest corn acreage in the last 75 years.