Low maternal feed levels cause a reduction in muscle fibre numbers, whereas enhanced maternal nutrition resulted in a higher number of muscle fibres in specific muscles.

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European Union - Development of web monitoring systems for the detection of emerging risks

The Emerging Risks Unit (EMRISK) has the mandate to assess and develop IT tools to detect and monitor food and feed emerging risks. For media-scanning systems, it has received a request to evaluate the Medical Information System (MedISys) developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

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Industry profits from pork CRC research

Australia’s pork industry is finally enjoying better times with rising pig prices, falling grain prices and a very welcome return to profitability, a situation that’s been enhanced by some vitally important research from the Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

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Delacon Performing Nature Symposium in Crete/Greece

The Performing Nature Symposium was successfully held last week on the Greece island Crete, where Delacon gathered 250 people from more than 25 countries. In these two days 18 speakers held lectures on the following topics: Trends in animal production and nutrition, Immunity and Environment.

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United Kingdom - Code of Practice for Salmonella control

The Code brings together in one document advice that was previously dispersed in three codes and the guidance it contains has been revised to reflect best practice and recent legislative developments.

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Amino acid digestibility of distillers dried grains with solubles produced from sorghum, a sorghum-corn blend, and corn fed to growing pigs

Distillers dried grains from sorghum or sorghum-corn blend showed the same SID for CP and Lys but lower for the rest of AA than those obtained from corn

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Effect of feeding fermentable fibre-rich feedstuffs on meat quality with emphasis on chemical and sensory boar taint in entire male and female pigs

Boar taint in male and female pigs may be reduced by the inclusion of specific ingredients in the finishing diets

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Pigs have no table manners either

Pigs having a snack and literally "squealing like pigs"

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EU - Green light to three genetically modified corn varieties

The European Commission decided Friday to authorize the importation of three types of genetically modified corn which are mainly used in animal foods.

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Effect of incremental levels of red blood cells on growth performance and carcass traits of finishing pigs

More than 2% of red blood cells inclusion in finishing diets may reduce growth performance in pigs

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The effect of feeding crude glycerol on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs

The substitution of wheat by crude glycerol (8%) in piglet diets may improves growth performance

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Feed management after weaning

Without a doubt weaning is the most stressful process suffered by a pig, or at least it is up until that moment in its life.

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FAO - Global platform for food security revitalized

Members of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (CFS) have agreed on a wide-ranging reform. The reform aims to make CFS the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform dealing with food security and nutrition and to be a central component in the evolving Global Partnership for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition.