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The standard states that the livestock used in naturally raised meat products: • Have been raised entirely without growth promotants and without antibiotics (except for ionophores used as coccidiostats for parasite control). • Have never been fed animal byproducts.

The objective of the Work Group is to promote policies aimed at allowing operators, agriculturists and breeders to receive the sufficient compensation corresponding to their activity.

Beef production grew by 2.7% up to 163.781 thousand tons, pork production was up 3% to 151.732 thousand tons, and poultry production increased by 16.8% to 128.927 thousand tons.

Protecting our Water, Soil and Air: A Code of Good Agricultural Practice for farmers, growers and land managers (the ‘CoGAP’) offers best practice advice for farmers to protect and enhance water, soil, and air quality in agricultural environments.

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has been confirmed as U.S. Agriculture Secretary.

Emission of nitrogen form agriculture has been reduced markedly since 1985.

Over the last few months there is evidence the disease, which has been relatively quiet for some time, has started to increase, with pockets of disease expanding particularly in the pig dense area of East Anglia, and north-east England.

Korea is becoming more attractive for Polish pork suppliers, especially now that the European Union has approved a budget for the promotion of pork products to Korea. Starting this year the Polish Chamber of Commerce along with suppliers will be promoting their products all over the nation, including the International Food Fair at KINTEX in May and a food promotion event at the Hyatt Hotel just before the big fair.

In the spring and summer of 2008 researchers from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences examined no less than 3,831 lactating sows on 98 different farms. The results showed that 17.2 percent of the lactating sows had shoulder ulcers to a greater or smaller degree on one or both shoulders.

Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald today said the State’s capacity to control and eradicate emergency animal diseases would be significantly enhanced by a new animal health database being rolled out across NSW.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Community Zoonoses Report for 2007. The Report shows that although figures varied considerably between Member States, Campylobacter infections still topped the list of zoonotic diseases in the European Union and that the number of cases due to Salmonella infections in humans fell for the fourth year in a row. Cases of listeriosis remained at the same level.

A recent survey in HCM City revealed that about 70 per cent of dried pork skin, a traditional Vietnamese food, in city markets was contaminated with bacteria. The majority of bacteria found in the surveyed skin were coliforms, E.Coli, B.cereus, C.perfringens and S.aureus.

A team of university researchers are looking for Welsh and Scottish farmers and abattoir workers to take part in a study of E. coli O157. The study is part of a three year Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) project called ‘Reducing E. coli O157 risk in rural communities’ led by Professor Ken Killham, chair of Soil Science at the University of Aberdeen.