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EU Member States endorsed today at SCoFCAH a guidance document on control and surveillance measures to protect pigs against the H1N1 influenza virus. The veterinary services should focus efforts on timely detection of the H1N1 virus by means of targeted surveillance and sustainable movement controls once virus enters pigfarms.

Two pig samples taken two weeks ago at a slaughter house in Hong Kong has tested positive for the influenza A/H1N1 virus, local health authorities said Thursday.

Since January 2009, a teschovirus PTV-1 serotype, identified by Plumb island laboratory, is circulating in Haiti and is causing important losses to Haiti pig producers.

Ohio agricultural groups scored an electoral victory Tuesday with the passage of a constitutional amendment creating a livestock care standards board and preempting a possible ballot campaign by the Humane Society of the United States.

After a brief decline during the initial outbreak of H1N1 influenza, U.S. pork exports to Mexico have rebounded quickly and impressively.

Pig production costs in Great Britain rose by 12 percent in 2008, against a European Union average increase of 24 percent, according to the latest BPEX cost of production report.

The Russian government will maintain the quotas for importation of meat products for the period from 2010 to 2012, according to a press release from the Presidential Press Service on October 15.

The first veterinary association in China has been established in Beijing in response to a call on domestic veterinary system reform, industry standards normalisation and a further involvement in international veterinarian affairs.

Belarus has banned pork imports from Russia over the recent swine fever outbreak, a spokeswoman for the country's food and agriculture ministry told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

Canadian warehouses held 43,713 metric tons of pork, up from 38,055 tons a year earlier, Statistics Canada, a government agency, reported. Pork exports fell 4.7 percent in 2009 through August from a year earlier, according to agency figures.

China's Ministry of Agriculture has announced that an outbreak of PPRS has reemerged in five provinces of China this year.

The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus has been found for the first time in a commercial swine herd, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday.

The European Commission decided Friday to authorize the importation of three types of genetically modified corn which are mainly used in animal foods.

A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution.

On September 25th, USDA released the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report showing that the September 1 inventory of breeding animals had declined more than 3 percent below the inventory of a year earlier.

In the 3rd quarter 2009 meat production and milk collection decreased (by 6.9% and 2.8%, respectively).