€236 Million Reallocated for Disease Control
EU - The Commission has today adopted the Commission's proposal endorsed by the Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal health held on 6 December to reallocate €236 million among Member States...

Research: Close Contact to Catch MRSA from Pigs
EU - A European alliance of scientists has confronted the spread of dangerous MRSA strains in the community and in livestock. Hospital-acquired MRSA is so well adapted to the hospital that it has difficulty...

Pork Crisis: Wake-up Call on Food Dependency
EU - Europe's livestock farming crisis is a wake-up call that the region could become dependent on ever increasing food imports as farmers, unable to pass on soaring feed costs to supermarket shoppers,...

Call to Step up ASF Measures
EU - Latvia has called for additional action against African Swine Fever originating from EU neighbouring third countries such as the Russian Federation.

EFSA Assesses Risk of Salmonella from Pig Meat
EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has assessed the public health risks from Salmonella in pigs and the impact of possible control measures.

Human and Animal Health Sectors Must Co-operate
EU - A report by the European Commission highlights the need for improved collaboration between the human and animal health sectors.

New Disease Threat?
EU - There were reports of a new unexplained syndrome of diarrhoea in young piglets from Denmark and France at the first European Symposium on Porcine Health Management in Copenhagen at the end of August....

New Rules for Animal By-products
EU - The European Council has adopted a regulation modernising the EU rules for animal by-products, following a first-reading agreement with the European Parliament.

McDonalds Launches Flagship Farms Programme
EU - Fast food restaurant chain McDonald's Europe has launched a new Flagship Farms programme, designed to promote and share the benefits of sustainable agricultural practices via real case studies from...

Measures to Cut Risk of Importing Animal Diseases
EU - A regulation on the introduction into the European Union of small quantities of animal products intended for personal consumption – a measure that will help reduce the risks of importing serious...

EFSA Study MRSA Link of Humans and Livestock
EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published an opinion on the public health significance of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals and foods.

Cooperation Helps Fight Salmonella Outbreak
EU - A Eurosurveillance report into an outbreak of Salmonella in Scandinavia has shown that cooperation between the countries can lessen the impact of the incidence.

OIE: Vet Education on the Move to Protect World
EU - Over 90 of the OIE's Member Countries, for the most part developing and in-transition countries in all regions of the world, have already invited the OIE to conduct an independent evaluation of their...

EFSA Tracks European Zoonoses
EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Community Zoonoses Report for 2007, which analyses the occurrence of...

New Bio-Protection Program
EU - CID LINES n.v., the manufacturer of more than 300 cleaning and disinfection chemicals, has extended its range with the BIOPROTEXION BOX, which was launched at EuroTier 2008.