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News by Topic: Genetics

Friday, January 27, 2012
View news from European Union Less Boar Taint with TOPIGS Nador Concept
GERMANY & NETHERLANDS - TOPIGS introduces the Nador concept. With Nador it is possible to select and use finisher boars that produce offspring with 40 per cent less boar taint. With this innovation one...
Friday, December 23, 2011
View news from European Union Feed Training at TOPIGS Danubia, October 2011
CENTRAL EUROPE - In the middle of October, TOPIGS Danubia organised seminars for the Central European Region about the new TOPIGS feeding recommendations.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
View news from European Union Less Boar Taint by Selecting Terminal Boars
EU - TOPIGS will soon start selecting finisher boars which have less risk of breeding offspring with boar taint.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
View news from European Union EFSA Consults on GM Effects on Health & Welfare
EU - EFSA has launched a public consultation on draft guidance for the risk assessment of food and feed derived from genetically modified (GM) animals and related animal health and welfare aspects.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
View news from European Union New Campaign to Stop Food from Cloned Animals
EU - Eurogroup for Animals has launched a new campaign, Clone-Free-Food, and a Declaration to gather support to end, as soon as possible, the use of cloning for food production in Europe.
Friday, February 11, 2011
View news from European Union EC GM Stance Should Apply to Animals
EUROPE - Eurogroup for Animals has expressed concern that the European Commission is to present an ethical and moral list to justify a ban on genetically modified (GM) crops to the European Council today...
Monday, September 28, 2009
View news from European Union Breeding for Profitability More Accurate than Ever Before
EU - As described in the article Breeding for Profitability, rather than focusing on selecting...
Friday, January 16, 2009
View news from European Union Clones for Food: EC Breaking its Own Rules?
EU - An animal welfare group has claimed that The European Commission is breaking its own rules with a wait and see approach to animal cloning. The group claims that cloning harms animal welfare.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
View news from European Union EU Parliament Votes Against Animal Clones
EU - The European Parliament called for a ban in the EU on the cloning of animals for food supply. MEPs also urged an embargo on imports of cloned animals, their offspring and products derived from these...

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