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Based on weekly data, April 30 pork stocks amounted to roughly 36% of April pork production.

The Secretary of State ordered the temporary closure of the pig farm, located in the Atacama region.

Three goats, three sheep and two pigs have died from the outbreak on one farm. Another five goats and two pigs have died on a separate farm.

While Australia has been free of foot–and–mouth disease for more than 100 years, it is still by far the most significant biosecurity threat to Australia’s livestock industries.

Fresh meat (beef, lamb, pork and poultry) have the highest proportion of British products carrying the Red Tractor logo with 87 percent.

The information gathered will assist the ministry and other industry stakeholders to better plan for the development of the pig/pork industry.

With the approval of the refrigeration plant Uberlândia, located in Minas Gerais, the number of Brazilian companies that can export pork to China rises to four.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development wants 14 vulnerable provinces and cities to take stronger action against the spread of the blue-ear disease among pigs.

The 2011 Census of Agriculture counted 205,730 census farms, a decline of 23,643 or 10.3% from 2006.

Each abattoir will be required to designate an Animal Welfare Officer to be present on the premises to monitor and take responsibility for the welfare of animals.

The Ambassador of Argentina in Brazil, Luis Maria Kreckler, announced the end to the embargo on pork imports from Brazil to the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Mendes Ribeiro Filho.

The guidance provides a new methodology for distinguishing between safe and potentially harmful strains of E. faecium in animal nutrition.

In 2004 piglet mortality averaged 21% and 23% of all piglets born in the first parity of Landrace and Large White sows, respectively. By 2011, these figures have decreased to averagely 15.4% and 16.9%.

European pork exports follow last year’s trend with an increase of 9.1% during the first quarter.

Iowa State University researchers have identified pigs that have a severely impaired immune system that could serve as important biomedical model for the study of immune system and other diseases in humans.

The governments of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, through the Andean Community (CAN), and Venezuela, requested FAO technical assistance to ensure an Andean subregional strategy for control and eradication of CSF.