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The European Commission has concluded its first settlement of a cartel case in a hybrid scenario, where both the settlement and ordinary procedures were followed. It has fined producers of animal feed phosphates a total of €175 647 000 for operating a cartel that lasted over three decades and covered a large part of the European Economic Area (EEA) territory.

The Ukrainian Committee of Statistics reported that as of June 1, 2010, the number of pigs in all types of farms increased by 14.2% up to 8175.8 thousand pigs against the same period in 2009.

In a survey from the Food Institute of Danish Technical University (DTU) there were salmonella in over ten percent of conventional indoor slaughter pigs, in seven percent of organic pigs, and in only five percent of outdoor pigs.

Retail prices for meat and eggs rose for the sixth consecutive month in June, reflecting the contraction of the nation’s livestock herds.

The area under organic agriculture has increased significantly over the last years and represents about 4.3% of the utilised agricultural area of the EU (in 2008), with particular high percentages in the Austria, Sweden, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Latvia.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Russia. Russia is suffering from its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 2006.

The Animal Nutrition Association of Canada says livestock producers will need to pay close attention to the cost of feed ingredients this winter and adjust rations accordingly.

The success of the European Union's efforts in combating Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle or scrapie in sheep and goats, allows the EU to contemplate changes in some of its rules.

The governments of Canada and Quebec are launching two new programs to support innovation in the agriculture and agri-food sector under the Growing Forward bilateral agreement.

Breeders in the northern province of Hai Duong were reluctant to raise pigs after the two-months' blue-ear epidemic, said Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Russia may export 60 times more pork and poultry by 2020, even as it seeks to build its food security by reducing dependence on imported meat, Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said Tuesday.

How should the EU's farm policy be reshaped and how should it be funded after 2013? Parliament set out its views in a resolution adopted on Thursday, ahead of the publication this autumn of the Commission's agricultural reform plans.

The Scottish pig industry and Quality Meat Scotland are taking action to promote high health status in the national pig herd and avoid thousands of pounds of losses through disease introduction.

The Commission proposed to confer to Member States the freedom to allow, restrict or ban the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) on part or all of their territory.

The Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), by means of the Food Technology Plant (CERPTA) and the José Eduardo Dos Santos de University of Angola will create there the first center for technological research and agrifoods transfer in Africa.

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sitaheng Rasphon has banned the import of pigs and pork products from neighbouring countries after an outbreak of blue ear disease on nine Vientiane farms.