Country of Origin: What's in a COOL Label?
Country of Origin Labelling is the next step to an entirely open marketplace for the US. In an ideal supermarket, consumers can understand as well as see the product that they are purchasing and they can monitor the system of production which has brought...

Public Health Risk-Based Inspection System for Processing and Slaughter
By the USDA, FSIS. The US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing a Public Health Risk-Based Inspection System (PHRBIS) for all processing and slaughter establishments.

Chain Reactions
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor. The EU Hygiene Regulations which came into force in 2006 recognised that all primary producers - including livestock farmers - are 'food' producers.

Food Miles: Cutting the distance won't save the planet
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor - Food miles are not the environmental 'bad boy' marketeers may have us believe. Other factors involved in the production chain have a far greater impact on the environment and it's these areas that farming industries...

Regulatory issues - the pressure’s mounting
By Keith Wilson of the Wilson Law Office in Edmonton and published by Alberta Pork.

Impact of Pork Industry on Rural Communities: Community Perceptions of Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of Livestock Production
By Wayne J. Caldwell and presented at the 2006 Banff Pork Seminar - Across Canada the continued viability of livestock production is increasingly dependent upon the willingness of the community to accept the industry as it continues to evolve.

A Guide To The Food Hygiene & Other Regulations For The Meat Industry
By The Meat Hygiene Services and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland - This Guide is relevant to those UK food businesses that slaughter animals for human consumption or cut or process meat, particularly those establishments...

Improving Animal Welfare: EU Action Plan
By the European Commission - Concrete measures to improve the protection and welfare of animals over the next five years are outlined in a new Action Plan on the protection and welfare of animals, adopted by the Commission today. The Action Plan aims...

Noise Management at Intensive Livestock Installations
By the Environment Agency - Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) is a regulatory system that employs an integrated approach to control the environmental impacts of certain industrial activities. In England and Wales IPPC operates under the...

Responsible use of antimicrobials in pig production
By RUMA - This article summarises the responsibilities of pig farmers as they use antimicrobials to safeguard the health and welfare of their animals.

Comment: IPPC - A good idea gone wrong
By Digby Scott, NPA - 'Unless the Environment Agency has a major rethink about the way it implements IPPC, the British pig industry, which has recently started to expand again after five years in the doldrums, will find it is critically short of pigs...

Progress Report on Salmonella Testing of Raw Meat and Poultry Products, 1998-2003
By the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service - The FSIS has released regulatory sampling data showing a continued downward trend in positive tests for Salmonella. The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) rule, implemented July 25, 1996,...

An update on UK incinerator rules
By Defra, Edited and Published by the NPA - If your incinerator is used only for pigs/poultry and it has a capacity of less than 50kg an hour the following rules apply. This is a summary distilled from the latest advice from Defra.

On-Farm Feed Milling: Gearing up for Compliance in the 21st Century
By Eduardo Beltranena IAZ PhD, published by Prairie Swine Centre - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) published in the Canada Gazette (Part 1; 2000 February 05) the proposed new regulations for the mixing of medicated feeds. These minimum compliance...

Snapshot of MBM Regulations from various Jurisdictions
Ontario Pork Newsletter - The world's first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) was diagnosed in Britain in 1986 by Britain's Central Veterinary Laboratory. The exact cause of BSE continues to be debated, but it is known that it is associated...

Getting My Barn Built - An Update on Regulations from a U.S. Perspective
By L. M. Safley, Jr., President, Agri-Waste Technology, Inc. - This paper, presented at the January 2003 Banff Pork Seminars, discusses the influences on the confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) regulations.

The long, winding road to obtain planning permission
By Norman Dunn, Better Farming Magazine (Ontario) - Germany and Denmark are taking two different paths to hog barn approvals. Just as in Canada, growing environmental awareness in most parts of Europe is forcing farmers to conform to a bewildering number...

Questions and Answers: Animal Transport in the EU
By European Commission - This article provides a question and answer session on the Euopean Unions' regulations regards animal transport.

Food Safety and Pig Production in Denmark
By Professor J Verner Wheelock and Charlotte Foster - This extensive report commissioned by The Danish Bacon & Meat Council examines Danish controls on antibiotics, veterinary medicines and Salmonella, and is supported by an analysis of systems and legislation...

Irish Animal Residue Monitoring Results for 2001
This article discusses the results from the September 2002 publication of the National Residue Monitoring Plan for 2001, released by Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Food.

New Farm Bill's Impact On U.S. Pork Industry
By Scott Brown, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri (NHF) - The major features of the six-year Farm Security and Rural Investment Act (FSRIA) of 2002 that relate to the swine sector are summarized here, although the...

Preparing an Odor Management Plan and Setback Estimation Tool
By University of Minnesota Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering - Minnesota Rules Relating to Animal Feedlots and Storage, Transportation, and Utilization of Animal Manure, Chapter 7020.0505 Subpart 4 B, requires feedlots with 1,000 animal...

EU regulations for the welfare of intensively reared pigs
This article summarises a communication from the European Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the welfare of intensively kept pigs in particularly taking into account the welfare of sows reared in varying degrees of confinement and...