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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness – the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), where food industry officials must use to alert the FDA quickly, through an electronic portal when they find their products might sicken or kill people or animals.

During the first six months of 2009 the consumption of prepared meat products increased in the volume of sales (+8.5%), reaching 262,231 tonnes, as well as in value (2,151.7 million euros, 7.7% more than in 2008). (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Farmers face an imminent shortage of animal feed because a handful of countries are blocking the approval of genetically modified crops, the European Union’s farm chief warned on Monday.

The Council took note of the views expressed by the Netherlands delegation, supported by Bulgaria, the Czech republic, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Austria and United-Kingdom, regarding the need of new instruments to better control and inspect international transport of live animals, such as satellite navigation systems.

The Council today adopted a regulation modernising the EU rules for so-called animal by-products 2, following a first-reading agreement with the European Parliament.

During the first six months of 2009 Ukraine imported above 212,000 t of red meat which is below the forecast, said the Minister of Economy of Ukraine Mr. Bohdan Danylyshyn.

The Council took note of the request made by the French delegation and supported by other delegations to reintroduce export refunds in support of the pig meat sector.

A review of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is to be carried out by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.

Australia is gradually restoring its positions of one of the major red meat exporters to Russia and the CIS countries (former Soviet states), most Russian experts believe.

The Danish Food Ministry increases its efforts to fight salmonella in pig meat.

New legislation addressing the growing need for veterinary services is under consideration in the House of Representatives. The legislation addresses the shortage of veterinarians especially in the areas of food animal medicine and public health.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA's intention to purchase an additional $30 million in pork products in FY 2009 for federal food and nutrition assistance programs.

Pig stocks were recorded by means of sampling at around 4 000 holdings – for the first time directly, so without assistance of towns and municipalities (as the survey bodies) – on the reference date of 1 June 2009 and yielded a total figure of 3 151 000 animals. This corresponds to a 2.9% rise in stocks compared to the date of the last census in December 2008.

AASV, National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council have been working diligently with State Animal Health Officials (SAHO) and the USDA to develop a response plan to direct actions in the event that the novel H1N1 Pandemic Influenza strain should be suspected or confirmed in a U.S. pig herd.

Nearly two-thirds of China’s consumers stopped eating pork in the early stages of the H1N1 influenza outbreak this year, and more than one in five consumers in the world’s largest pork market still believe that eating pork can result in catching the flu virus, according to a survey of 1,200 Chinese consumers commissioned last month by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Stakeholders in the pig sector in the country say African Swine Fever constitutes one of the greatest threats to pig farming in the country and that all hands must be put on deck to eradicate or at least reduce the disease to the minimum.