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After the evaluation of the Mexican veterinary services, el Agriffod and Veterinary Authority of SINGAPUR (AVA) informed Mexico of the possibility that it may export pig meat and pig products. Singapure will now begin the process of creating a listing of TIF establishments as these had asked for.(Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The Caribbean has been a bright spot for U.S. meat exports so far this year, with pork, beef and lamb exports all showing double-digit volume increases over the first half of 2008.

The objective of this Regulation ((EC) Nº 767/2009), in accordance with the general principles laid down in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, is to harmonise the conditions for the placing on the market and the use of feed, in order to ensure a high level of feed safety and thus a high level of protection of public health, as well as to provide adequate information for users and consumers and to strengthen the effective functioning of the internal market.

Taking into consideration the improvement of the situation connected with swine erysipelas, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance coordinated DG-SANCO to correct the veterinary certificate for slaughter pigs exported from the European Union to the Russian Federation.

2009/620/EC: Commission Decision of 20 August 2009 amending Decision 2005/779/EC as regards the inclusion of the region of Abruzzo in the list of Italian regions free of swine vesicular disease.

Agreement to export pig meat to China is nearing fruition as a delegation of Chinese veterinarians visits the UK next month.

The Spain Agribusiness Report Q309 looks at the domestic farming industry during a global recession.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp (COFCO) is set to invest CNY 4 billion (USD 588 million) in Tianjin for a complex combining pig farms with a processing plant.

Nicaragua expects to supply Russia with 12 thousand tonnes of read meat per year.

The global economic crisis that started in late 2008 has led to a sharp curtailment of international trade, including a short-term decline in the value of global agricultural trade of around 20 percent.

The 2008 Report of the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) on Animal Health provides a definite record of Government animal health and welfare activities across the UK.

Ongoing surveillance for respiratory diseases in Manitoba swine herds has detected the novel pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in several herds, including sow barns, nursery barns, and feeder barns in various locations in the province.

Rangeland plants may be harboring a virus that grasshoppers are transmitting to cattle, horses and other hoofed mammals.

A new national commission, the One Health Commission, has been established to spotlight the connections between human, animal, and environmental health, as well as the benefits of proactive and collaborative approaches toward better health for all.

The Governor of the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina this week signed a decree that will allow the sale of fresh pig meat and live animals outside the state free of the Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) for a period of 90 days.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently launched an enhanced U.S. foreign agricultural trade searchable database called the Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS).