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Plans for an EU food quality policy, intended to add value to the economies of Europe's regions, are set out in a resolution drafted by Giancarlo SCOTTÀ (EFD, IT) and approved by Parliament as a whole on Thursday. This resolution responds to a Commission consultation paper on EU food quality policy and forms part of a wider debate in Parliament on the future aims of the Common Agricultural Policy.

The government in the Philippines are projecting a shortfall in pork in the second quarter, even as poultry supply is seen to remain ample.

The South Korean government declared the country Tuesday is clear of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), after a series of outbreaks since January this year dented the domestic dairy industry.

This is the second report in the UK compiled by the various agencies dealing with public health or the health of animals raised for food. It brings together data on antimicrobial consumption, significant pathogens and their antimicrobial susceptibilities across the fields of human health, animal health and food.

State Fund Agriculture has approved the first 464 Semi-Subsistence Farms projects under the Rural Development Program (RDP) 2007-2013. Investments, which have been given a start, are at a total value of BGN 13.4 million.

The European Union has published in the DOUE the Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 of 12 March 2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements.

New waste regulations, set to start on April 6, will see farmers and growers saving more than £4m in red-tape costs.

EU animal welfare rules must be more rigorously enforced, with more inspections and effective penalties, said the Agriculture Committee. It nonetheless welcomed a reduction in harmful antibiotics in animal feed, further to an EU ban.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is running a series of tests on cattle, hog, chicken and turkey carcasses with the objective of resetting pathogen testing baselines.

On March 10 of this year, the main corporations and unions of the entire agricultural sector of Chile officially established a bilateral committee where key social and labor issues will be negotiated for the development of activities.

USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced more than $5 million in grants to address air quality issues, including reducing agricultural atmospheric emissions and developing new mitigation practices.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 242/2010 of 19 March 2010 creating the Catalogue of feed materials.

Following a request from The European Commission, the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on African Swine Fever and to assess: • the significance of the occurrence and risk of endemicity of ASF in the countries neighbouring the EU • the possibility of ASF becoming endemic in domestic pigs and to maintaining itself in a wild boar population in the EU, keeping in mind the differences in virulence of ASF virus strains, in particular the virus strains which are now endemic in the Caucasus region; • the role played by vectors in the spread and the maintenance of ASF and provide geographical information and maps of Member States displaying the geographical distribution of Ornithodoros erraticus as well as other potential invertebrate hosts.

Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has found a positive link between feeding encapsulated Zinc oxide and reducing post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) in piglets.

Washington’s governor, Chris Gregoire, has signed a new bill that requires livestock entering Washington from another state be inspected within 12 hours of entry.

Ontario's agriculture minister has intervened against a provincial tribunal's ruling that allowed hog farmers a "negative option" to sell hogs through a single marketing desk.