United Kingdom Confirms New Outbreak of FMD
The United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) about 30 miles from the sites involved in an earlier outbreak...
Great Britain Reports FMD Outbreak
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed that an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has occurred in a cattle herd in Surrey England, southwest of London...
Wisconsin Sounds ‘All Clear’ On Pseudorabies Front
The “all-clear” signal has been given by state veterinarian Bob Ehlenfeldt in the Wisconsin pseudorabies (PRV) case...
PQA Plus Launched
New quality assurance/animal well-being certification program rolled out for producers of all sizes. Members of the National Pork Board and this year's...
No Foreign Animal Disease Found in Suspects Tested
A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a group of pigs delivered to a Minnesota processing plant from an Iowa livestock facility has turned out to be negative, according to a release from...
Food & Politics
Legislators and regulators are feeling the pressure of a seemingly endless list of concerns about the safety of food for man and beast...
USDA Clears Swine To Be Processed
Testing has confirmed that meat from hogs fed rations supplemented with pet food scraps containing melamine and related compounds is safe for human consumption....
Measuring the Risk
PRRS Risk Assessment Tool measures the level of risk that a PRRS outbreak will occur and provides a complete database featuring benchmarking and analysis....
Animal Identification Program is Aug. 28-30
The National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s annual ID-INFO EXPO 2007 will be held Aug. 28-30 at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, MO...
Producers Take Steps to Secure Their Futures
Two independent pork producers show that family-owned hog operations are alive and well in the nation's top hog state...
