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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the final rule for the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) program will go into effect as scheduled on March 16th. He also released a letter inviting stakeholders to follow additional voluntary labeling practices. The rule, published in the Federal Register on Jan.15, 2009, has been under regulatory review by USDA pursuant to a Jan. 20, 2009, memorandum from the President's Chief of Staff.

Pork exports have shown a dramatic rise over the last year according to new figures from BPEX. Exports of fresh and frozen pork have risen by 20 percent over the year, up nearly 20,000 tonnes to 118,300. Bacon exports also showed a big jump, going from 12,000 tones to more than 33,000 tonnes.

The National Farming Health Service (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria - Senasa) plans to implement the Swine Health Programme during the second half of 2009, the aim is to increase the level of Peruvian pig meat exports to foreign markets. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The National Monetary Council this week passed new measures which will allow the updating of the credit limit for the swine and poultry sectors. (Original in Portuguese. Read Google translation here).

In January 2009, Russia increased meat and meat product manufacturing by 2.3%, as Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) reported on Thursday.

Figures published by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture show a decrease in Spanish swine livestock of 2.47% during the first eight months of 2008. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) said more than permitted levels of Enrofloxacin and Ciprofloxacin were found in a 23-ton shipment of pork that was brought into the country on Feb. 9. Tests showed that the pork from the meat exporter identified as 10.06579G had 0.7 parts per million (ppm) of the agents in the pork it shipped. This is higher than the max limit of 0.1 ppm set by Seoul.

Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) Thursday announced the suspension of pork, pork products and dairy products import from Taiwan. The announcement followed an official confirmation of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at two farms in Taiwan.

Iowa State University researchers have found that certain antibiotics encounter more resistance from Campylobacter coli than other antibiotics, with some variation of resistance levels between farms.

Forty-six people in China's southern province of Guangdong have suffered food poisoning after eating pig organs that contained an animal feed additive.

The Vietnamese veterinary authorities have sent an Immediate Notification to the OIE about a new outbreak of trichinellosis in pigs.

According to a study carried out at the University of Wageningen the total veterinary use of antibiotics increased by 3% between 1999 and 2007 with an increase in the therapeutic use of antibiotics of 83%. (Original in Dutch. Read Google translation here).

To aid in controlling the spread of PRRSV, researchers at the University of Minnesota's Swine Disease Eradication Center (SDEC) compiled the Biosecurity Protocols for the Prevention of Spread of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus.

More than 200 slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh, in Northern India will have biogas plants within a year.

The Conservative Party has launched a new campaign for clearer meat labelling, which, it says, will empower consumers and give them confidence to buy British. The Conservative’s ‘Honest Food’ campaign is aimed at getting a compulsory ‘country-of-origin’ labelling scheme enshrined in law, so that meat products labelled as British can only come from animals born and reared in this country.

The Department of Agriculture in Central Mindanao has quarantined livestock farms in several towns in North Cotabato province whose pigs tested positive for hog cholera.