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Due to growing concern over food safety along with a rising demand for hygiene, the Vietnamese government is pushing to reform and modernize its meat processing industry.

On October 15 this year the Federal Agency for Safety in the Food Chain (AFSCA) suspended the slaughter of pigs at a slaughterhouse in Liege due to a sharp increase in carcasses contaminated with Salmonella Ohio.

To assist the ongoing public consultation process on the future EU Animal Health Law, a dedicated page on SANCO website has been made available from 21 October.

The United States blocked on Friday requests by Canada and Mexico for World Trade Organization experts to examine new U.S. labeling rules that the two U.S. neighbors say are hurting their meat exports.

The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the US healthcare company Schering-Plough by the US global pharmaceutical company Merck.

Members of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (CFS) have agreed on a wide-ranging reform. The reform aims to make CFS the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform dealing with food security and nutrition and to be a central component in the evolving Global Partnership for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition.

Last week, Iowa State University (ISU) engineers prepared a news release on this subject highlighting the need for extreme caution when agitating and pumping manure in these deep pits under barns.

The Rural Development Committee approved a first wave of proposals from Member States/regions for using fresh European Union funding for rural development. The Member States/regions in question have proposed amendments to their Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) to make use of extra funding provided by the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy and the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), agreed in November 2008.

Farmers and farm workers are getting older and agriculture is not seen as an attractive industry by young people, according to pig producer Richard Longthorp.

The deadly pig disease African Swine Fever (ASF) has jumped 2,000 kilometres from southern Russia to St Petersburg in north-western Russia.

Meat has helped drive a recession-defying increase in UK food exports so far this year, latest figures show.

The latest figures from the swine census published by the Spanish Agriculture Ministry show a slight decrease in the swine population during the first six months of 2009. This decrease is mainly due to the fall in the number of piglets.

The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) publishes its Report on the Welfare of Farmed Animals in Great Britain: Past, Present and Future.

This is the first infection of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 in swine in Japan. The infection was detected through surveillance conducted by prefectural veterinary authority.

During the past year the Danish farmers have lost approximately € 215 million due to the slaughterhouses’ lacking competitiveness.

Damage to agriculture from the successive typhoons that hit the Philippines is now pegged at an estimated PHP 18 billion (USD 388.6 million).