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EFSA’s Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection has published an analysis of the risk factors related to Salmonella in slaughter pigs within the European Union (EU). Whilst the results revealed that Salmonella infected pigs were more likely to lead to Salmonella contaminated carcasses, these could also come from uninfected pigs. Moreover, the Salmonella carcass contamination was more likely to happen in some slaughterhouses than in others.

Livestock farmers are amongst those targeted by the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) latest safety campaign, which aims to prevent deaths and serious injuries in the agriculture industry. The HSE has launched the ‘Make the promise. Come home safe’ campaign in a bid to reduce the number of fatal accidents on farms.

The CONffIDENCE project aims to further improve food safety in Europe by the development of faster and more cost-efficient methods for the detection of a wide range of chemical contaminants in different food and feed commodities.

Leading meat industry representatives from farmers through to retailers have come together to form an environmental taskforce to develop an environmental ‘roadmap’ for the sector. The Meat Roadmap will give the industry the tools it needs to address a broad range of environmental issues in addition to carbon across the product supply chain.

The USA will supply 750 thousand tons of poultry and 100 thousand tons of pork to Russia in 2009. The figures mentioned above represent new quotas agreed by specialists of Russia and the USA.

A new venture to benchmark the cost of labour for particular tasks in British pig production has gained funding from BPEX’s Innovation Fund. The technique was originally developed to help bring down costs in the dairy industry. It is the first time the labour efficiency scheme has been applied to the pig sector.

European Comission has adopted the decision to include Sicily in the list of Italian regions free of swine vesicular disease.

European Union pigmeat production is forecast to be down 3 percent next year.

Following the detection of the Ebola-Reston virus in pigs in the Philippines, FAO, OIE and WHO announced that the government of the Philippines has requested the three agencies send an expert mission to work with human and animal health experts in the Philippines to further investigate the situation.

European Comission has aproved the inclusion of the Netherlands in the list of Member States free of Aujeszky’s disease and of Hungary in the list of Member States where an approved national control programme for that disease is in place.

Mexico ended bans on meat imports from five more U.S. plants that were decertified by the country last week. A total of 25 plants have been cleared to ship to Mexico, out of about 30 that lost export certification last week. Mexico halted shipments from the pork, beef and poultry plants on Dec. 23 after they failed to meet quality and technical standards, according to the USDA.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revoking the order prohibiting the extralabel use of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals.

This rule relieves certain FMD-related prohibitions and restrictions on imports from Surrey County, England, while ensuring the continued protection of U.S. livestock from FMD.

Although co-infection in pigs is not unusual, this is the first time globally that an Ebola-Reston virus has been isolated in swine

EFSA’s Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection has published an analysis of the risk factors related to Salmonella in slaughter pigs within the European Union.

All restaurants serving chicken, pork and Kimchi should make public the origin of their ingredients from Monday.