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European Union - Food quality: legislation hended

Plans for an EU food quality policy, intended to add value to the economies of Europe's regions, are set out in a resolution drafted by Giancarlo SCOTTÀ (EFD, IT) and approved by Parliament as a whole on Thursday. This resolution responds to a Commission consultation paper on EU food quality policy and forms part of a wider debate in Parliament on the future aims of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Aiming for 1,000-gram growth in fattening pigs: factors for success and points of improvement

Wageningen UR Livestock Research is studying the growth and feed conversion of fattening pigs. The most important success factors which contribute to a good performance are associated with hygiene, nutrition, shelter, climate, delivery management, and structured working methods. The most important points where improvements can be made are associated with the quality of the pigs, external and internal biosecurity, and feeding.

The metabolic status during the peri partum period affects the voluntary feed intake and the metabolism of the lactating multiparous sow

This trial was undertaken to investigate the metabolic changes occurring around farrowing and to assess their relationships with feed intake and metabolism of the sow during lactation.

Aggression in replacement grower and finisher gilts fed a short-term high-tryptophan diet and the effect of long-term human–animal interaction

Provision of enhanced TRP diet reduced behavioural activity and aggressiveness of grower gilts, and these results are likely mediated by activation of brain serotonergic system. Short-term high-TRP dietary supplementation may be used to reduce aggression at mixing in young pigs.

European Union - Animal welfare: step up inspections and penalties to ensure compliance

EU animal welfare rules must be more rigorously enforced, with more inspections and effective penalties, said the Agriculture Committee. It nonetheless welcomed a reduction in harmful antibiotics in animal feed, further to an EU ban.

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Effects of yeast culture supplementation on growth performance, intestinal health, and immune response of nursery pigs

Yeast cultures may represent an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters for weanling piglets.

European Union - Catalogue of feed materials

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 242/2010 of 19 March 2010 creating the Catalogue of feed materials.

Australia- Healthy outcome for pork industry

Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has found a positive link between feeding encapsulated Zinc oxide and reducing post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) in piglets.

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Performance of growing–finishing pigs fed diets containing a transgenic wheat, a non-transgenic genetically similar wheat, or conventional wheat varieties

Pig performance is not affected by the wheat variety used in the growing-finishing diets

European Union- EFSA: Database of guidance on different toxicity end-points, risk assessment methodologies and data collection related to food, feed, animal health and welfare and plant health

The purpose of this document is to provide an inventory of guidance and test methodologies that have been developed or are in the process of being developed on risk assessment related to food and feed safety.

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Effects of meal or pellet diet form on finishing pig performance and carcass characteristics

Diet pelleting improves pig performance during the finishing period; however, pellet quality may strongly depend on diet composition

New feed supplement boosts piglet production

Following recognition under the UFAS feed approval scheme UK pig farmers now have access to a new product, Digeston-K, a feed supplement that can improve sow productivity by at least one pig per sow a year.

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Efficacy of different commercial phytase sources and development of a phosphorus release curve

Dietary available phosphorous may be predicted taking into account the phytase level in the diet

Different feed withdrawal times before slaughter influence caecal fermentation and faecal Salmonella shedding in pigs

The effects of different pre-slaughter feed withdrawal times (FWT) on the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) weight and the gut environment of pigs and Salmonella shedding were investigated.

United Kingdom - Statistics on GB animal feed

The latest national statistics produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on GB Animal Feed were released on 11th March 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. Statistics on GB Animal Feed include data for the period November 2009, December 2009 and January 2010 with percentage change for corresponding period last year.

United Kingdom - Board agrees single front-of-pack label plan

The Agency's Board agreed to the implementation of a single approach to front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling that will best help consumers make healthier choices when they buy food.