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News Archive
Vietnam: Pig breeders experience major losses
20 Apr 2012 - Pig breeding farms in Dong Nai Province are facing major losses due to illegal lean meat substances which have been used in pork meat.
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NPPC reacts to claim about deceptive advertising
20 Apr 2012 - NPPC has learned that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that NPPC is “engaging in deceptive advertising related to animal well-being.”
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China: More frozen pork purchases on the horizon
20 Apr 2012 - China has stated that it will buy more frozen pork in order to hike up prices. Currently live hogs are selling too cheaply and pig farmers are not raking in the profits.
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Steroid hormone levels in newborn piglets
20 Apr 2012 - Japanese researchers published last month a study on the relationships between steroid hormone levels in newborn piglets and how they influence birth weight, placental weight, vitality of the offspring and the size of the litter, in Animal Science Journal.
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Munters offers a solution to clogging of air cleaners
20 Apr 2012 - Munters has found the solution to problems with clogging of filter material in air cleaners. The solution is an air cleaner using nozzles instead of a filter. Another gold card for the livestock industry is partial air cleaning…
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RESEARCH: Brucellosis suis discovered in feral swine in NC
20 Apr 2012 - Feral pigs in the American state North Carolina have tested positive for Brucella suis, a bacteria that can be transmitted to domestic pigs and people. Read more >>
Danish ‘bacon pig’ preserved
19 Apr 2012 - The Danish Landrace 1970 – also known as the ‘Bacon Pig’ – has received a genetic boost. By using frozen semen, ‘old’ genes have successfully been re-introduced to the breed. This has huge impact on the preservation of the breed.
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Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network launched
19 Apr 2012 - In Canada, Prince Edward Island's Atlantic Veterinary College is helping to create a new national health initiative for pigs, CBC reports.
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China's Olympic athletes abstain from pork, clenbuterol worry
19 Apr 2012 - With the London Olympics coming up, Chinese athletes are abstaining from eating domestic pork. They fear inadvertently consuming substances banned under current anti-doping rules...
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PEOPLE: New BPEX appointment to improve pig health, meat safety
19 Apr 2012 - Katrin Turvey has been appointed BPEX veterinary programme manager with responsibility for managing the BPEX Research and Development programme of activity for improving pig health and pig meat safety.
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Skiold’s largest order ever of pig equipment for Russia
19 Apr 2012 - Skiold largest order ever of pig stable equipment includes all equipment for 140,000 piglets and slaughter pigs in the same livestock annually.
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Vietnam to see expanding demand for agricultural products
18 Apr 2012 - While China and India get most of the press for expanding middle class demand for agricultural exports, Vietnam has the potential to rank right up there with them, according to a panel of experts during the 2012 Commodity Classic.
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PEOPLE: New technical sales manager at Rubinum
18 Apr 2012 - Alejandro J. Magan has been appointed technical sales manager by Rubinum SA, Spain.
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Pork Checkoff/ PIC: Recipients of 2012 pork industry scholarships
18 Apr 2012 - The Pork Checkoff and PIC have awarded 15 scholarships to college students around the United States as part of their strategy to develop the pork industry's human capital for the future.
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NPPC: FDA antibiotics guidance problematic for producers
18 Apr 2012 - The loss of and restricted access to products expected with implementation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s guidance on the use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry production likely will disproportionately affect small producers, have a negative effect on animal health and increase the cost of producing food while not improving public health, said the National Pork Producers Council.
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PEOPLE: Ufac-UK takes on new business manager
18 Apr 2012 - Strengthening the technical team at Ufac-UK is Martin Smith, who has been appointed area business manager, Midlands.
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Micronutrients and Orffa introduce new copper source
18 Apr 2012 - IntelliBond C (Tribasic copper chloride – TBCC) is a completely new form of copper, which is available for animal nutrition in Europe from today onwards. This new specific crystalline copper source received EU approval as a nutritional additive for all animal species (functional group: compounds of trace elements).
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BPEX re-examines Europe's readiness for sow stall ban
17 Apr 2012 - An updated report has been produced by BPEX re-examining the readiness of European countries for the introduction of the partial stalls and tethers ban on 1 January 2013.
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Moldova could face pork production crisis
17 Apr 2012 - The prices for poultry and pork in Moldova in the next few months will rise about 12% due to the increase of value-added tax - from 8% to 20%.
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EU puts off organic animal feed rules till 2014
17 Apr 2012 - Producers were permitted to feed 5% of non-organic feed to pigs and poultry up until the end of last year. However, the European Union have postponed the introduction of a 100% organic diet for monogastric animals for two years.
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