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The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance informs that the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes temporary restrictions on import of all species of animals susceptible to FMD, products thereof and raw materials obtained from these animals from the territory of the Akmolinskaya Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation from 09.07.2010 due to occurrence of FMD in this territory.

In a survey from the Food Institute of Danish Technical University (DTU) there were salmonella in over ten percent of conventional indoor slaughter pigs, in seven percent of organic pigs, and in only five percent of outdoor pigs.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Russia. Russia is suffering from its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 2006.

Breeders in the northern province of Hai Duong were reluctant to raise pigs after the two-months' blue-ear epidemic, said Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

In 2008, 25 Member States submitted information on the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic bacteria to the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority. In addition, two countries that were not European Union Member States provided information for the report. Assisted by its contractor, the Technical University of Denmark, the European Food Safety Authority analysed all the data, the results of which are published in this Community Summary Report.

The Scottish pig industry and Quality Meat Scotland are taking action to promote high health status in the national pig herd and avoid thousands of pounds of losses through disease introduction.

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sitaheng Rasphon has banned the import of pigs and pork products from neighbouring countries after an outbreak of blue ear disease on nine Vientiane farms.

The veterinary authorities of Laos have informed the OIE about the first-time appearance of PRRS on pork farms in the country.

A local government’s veterinary service found a cow showed typical clinical signs of FMD by surveillance on 4 July. The affected farm is in a movement control area around Miyazaki city. All susceptible animals in the farm were destroyed on 5 July.

Livestock officers have inspected pig farms in various provinces following reports of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) that has killed a large number of pigs in Nong Khai province.

The Ministry of Agriculture issued another notice for animal disease prevention in flood-stricken areas, requiring local authorities to step up organization and guidance and implement prevention and control measures so as to prevent major animal diseases and zoonoses during and after the flood.

Nguyen Thanh Son, deputy director of the Department of Livestock Production spoke with Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) about pig farming after the outbreak of blue-ear pig disease.

EU veterinary experts have decided to upgrade the health status of several member states. the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCOFCAH) agreed to declare Slovenia an Aujesky-free member state, while Poland and Spain were also upgraded to a regime of "special trade rules" aimed at consolidating progress made to date.

The government with the Socialists, Socialist People's Party, Danish People's Party, Liberal Party and Unity signed a new four-year agreement on a continued effort to bacteria in food. There is allocated approx. 25 million kroner a year of effort, which is a strengthening relative to the previous action against Salmonella and Campylobacter. At the same time reinforced efforts against antibiotic resistant bacteria.

The Canadian Swine Health Board says the pork industry can learn a lot from an incident last week in which operations at a Canadian pork processing plant were temporarily suspended over fears of foot and mouth disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals. The draft guidance outlines the FDA’s current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously in animal agriculture. The FDA acknowledges the efforts to date by various veterinary and animal producer organizations to institute guidelines for the judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, but the agency believes additional steps are needed.