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Fat investment renders new life into old plant

09-Dec-2010
Officially opening a new $10 million red meat rendering facility for the Craig Mostyn Group (CMG) at Talloman, Hazelmere, Western Australia, yesterday, WA Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, said the investment showed CMG’s commitment to continuous improvement and a willingness to invest in upgrading its operations.

USA - Senate passes sweeping food safety bill

01-Dec-2010
The Senate on Tuesday approved the biggest overhaul to the nation's food safety laws since the 1930s. The 73-to-25 vote gives vast new authorities to the Food and Drug Administration, places new responsibilities on farmers and food companies to prevent contamination, and -- for the first time - sets safety standards for imported foods, a growing part of the American diet.

Body reserve mobilization during lactation in first parity sows and its effect on second litter size

29-Nov-2010
The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of sow body reserves at weaning and body reserve losses during the first lactation on the second litter size (SLS). A number of 1222 females which reached the second parity without failures such as return to estrus after insemination, abortion or failure to farrow, were analyzed. Measurements of body weight (BW), backfat thickness (BT) and body condition score (BCS) were taken within 24 h after farrowing and on the weaning day.

European Union – New catalogue of feed materials

24-Nov-2010
Feed information will soon improve significantly, thus further empowering feed users, due to an innovative act of private-sector cooperation that resulted in a Commission proposal. The proposal was endorsed today by the Member States at the Standing Committee for on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH). The private sector worked voluntarily on an important update of the old list of feed materials (Catalogue), which contains less than 200 entries. The new Catalogue will include descriptions of 64 qualifying transformation processes of feed materials (currently only 17 processes, which are essentially used to treat feed, are listed) and almost 600 well-defined feed materials.