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European Union: Commission clears acquisition of Sokolów by Danish Crown in food sector

The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns given the parties' moderate combined market position resulting from the proposed transaction.

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United Kingdom: evaluating changes to official controls in pig approved slaughterhouses

The results of the research will hopefully help the FSA to understand how the changes are working in practice and will also help FSA to identify areas where further assistance is needed – for example, training and information.

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Denmark: plan for reducing the inspection costs in the abattoirs

The Ministry of Agriculture will work together with the abattoirs to reduce the cost of the public control in the next four years.

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Video tour of a pork plant featuring Temple Grandin

A tour of a pork plant guided by Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and widely considered to be the world's leading expert on humane animal handling at meat packing plants. This video provides an honest look at how pigs are handled at pork packing plants

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Mexico invests 650 million pesos to guarantee the harmlessness of the meat products

450 million pesos will be directed towards the subprogramme for the support of the slaughterings of cattle, goats, sheep and pigs.

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Argentina incorporates animal welfare during the slaughter

The regulation incorporates criteria for the protection of the animals, placing this country among those that obey the internationally demanded standards.

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Germany: the meat sector agrees on a minimum wage for its workers

This wage agreement foresees the introduction of a uniform minimum wage in the meat sector in the whole of Germany, and it will be €7.75/hour as of next July 1st.

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Canada: new program to support animal welfare at slaughter

The program will be allocated a budget of $450,000 spread over three years, from 2013 to 2016.

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Denmark: structural plan to safeguard the future of Danish Crown

Over the past five years and more, the production of pigs for slaughter in Denmark has fallen by over 20 per cent.

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Mexico: building of the first TIF Establishment in Guerrero

The TIF establishment will have the infrastructure for the slaughtering, refrigeration and butchering of beef and pork.

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Philippine government to build, upgrade abattoirs

The plant will have a capacity of 250 heads per shift.

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EFSA: scientific opinion on the welfare of pigs during the slaughter process

EFSA has published three scientific opinions on the welfare of pigs, sheep and goats, chicken and turkeys during the slaughter process.

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European Union: Domestic swine - Post mortem inspection requirements

The Council decided not to oppose the adoption of a Commission's amendment to annex I to regulation 854/2004 as regards the specific requirements for post-mortem inspection of domestic swine.

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Right lung of a pig. Chronic ventro-cranial pleuritis involving the cardiac lobe and the cranial part of the diaphragmatic lobe.

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Evaluation of pig pleuritis at the slaughterhouse

The abattoir is a useful endpoint to collect data on herd health status and a valuable tool for monitoring the effect of disease control measures.

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United States: Compliance Guide for a Systematic Approach to the Humane Handling of Livestock

This is the first edition of the FSIS Compliance Guide for a Systematic Approach to the Humane Handling of Livestock.

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European Union: Parliament authorises reform of public health checks on pork

Proposals to allow official abattoir vets to declare pork fit for human consumption after a simple visual check will go ahead after MEPs rejected a veto motion tabled by the Food Safety Committee.