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Thailand has enacted several new regulations that restrict imports of feed and feed ingredients containing certain animal proteins.

EFSA has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance on the assessment of the efficacy of feed additives.

Surge in maize output on course to lift cereals stock-to-use ratio to highest level since 2002.

On October 31, a fire occurred during the startup of the Citral plant in Ludwigshafen. BASF’s Vitamin A and E plants are currently also shut down for scheduled, routine maintenance. The company will only be able to restart these plants once supply of Citral is re-established.

European Union cereal production in 2017/18 is expected to slightly recover, with an increase of 1.5% compared to 2016/17, adding up to almost 300 million tonnes of cereal.

Global cereal production in 2017 is forecast to surpass the 2016 peak by a small margin, according to FAO's latest Cereal Supply and Demand Brief.

The import duties are now fixed from 10 October 2017, and will apply until a new figure is required and calculated by the automatic mechanism in place.

Spain has been the second feed producer in the EU (behind Germany) with an increase by 1.6% with respect to 2015.

A new study by FAO and published in Global Food Security found that livestock rely primarily on forages, crop residues and by-products that are not edible to humans and that certain production systems contribute directly to global food security, as they produce more highly valuable nutrients for humans, such as proteins, than they consume.

FAO raised its forecast for global cereal production to 2 611 million tonnes, an all-time record. Worldwide stocks of cereals are also expected to reach an all-time high by the close of seasons in 2018, according to the latest FAO Cereal Supply and Demand Brief.

This revised tariff, triggered by an automatic mechanism that calculates import duties, will avoid putting European producers at a disadvantage.

The Commission launched a market observatory for crops to ensure more transparency and increase availability of market data for European farmers and traders.

The Commission adopted five authorisations for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for food/feed use.

New figures released by Copa and Cogeca show EU cereal production set to rise by 0.4% this year, but still below 300 million tonnes.

Publication in the Official Journal of the EU of the third update of the EU Catalogue of feed materials (Regulation (EU) 2017/1017).

The Commission considers that the Member States must be given a 5-year period for withdrawing the marketing authorisations of veterinary drugs that contain zinc oxide.