EC: Simple, Clear, Modern Feed Marketing Rules
EU - The European Commission adopted today a proposal for a Regulation which considerably simplifies the existing procedures for labelling and marketing animal feed and pet food, while making the overall system more efficient and maintaining the same...

European Market: On The Up and Steadily Rising
EU - The European slaughter pig market made positive moves this week. An upswing in prices is welcome relief but supplies are tightening.

EU Pig Prices: Patchy
EU - Pig prices throughout Europe are reported as patchy way this week. While the movement is clearly upwards (plus 8 euro-cents) in Spain, slaughter companies in Germany are putting the brakes on.

Feeding Phytase Reduces Costs
UK - Adding more phytase to feed could help pig producers offset some of the addtional costs of feed phosphate prices. New generation bacterial phytases have been shown to be more effective at releasing plant-bound phytate phosphorus - so accessing valuable...

Europe Watches US PIN Investigations
EUROPE - European health and food safety officials are keeping a close watch on the progress of investigations into outbreaks of progressive inflammatory neuropathy (PIN) at US pig slaughterhouses.

Failure on GM Crops Could Ruin Livestock Industry
EU - Europe's livestock industry could be decimated unless genetically modified crops are permitted for use in livestock diets

EU Pig Prices: Upswing Observed
EU - Pig producers all over Europe see pig prices go up everywhere this week. Spain is out in front of everyone else, being closely followed by Germany.

Euro Ministers Must Support New Crisis Measures
EU - European pigmeat producers are facing an unprecedented crisis, with prices for pig feed having risen by almost 50 percent in recent months due to the low availability of feedstuffs, reports the UK's National Pig Association.

Science and Salmonella in Pigs: Contributions Wanted
EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has asked its Panel on Biological Hazards to address a Quantitative Microbiological Risk Assessment on Salmonella in slaughter and breeder pigs.

EU Pig Prices: Spring Awakens Market
EU - This week, the European slaughter pig market is characterised by a change of moods. The tide appears to turning in the European slaughter pig market. After weeks of dpresseion, pig prices seem to have finished hibernating and there are signs of ...

EU Pig Prices: Markets Plateau
EU - No surprises are in store for the European pig market this week. Prices remain unchanged and only the Spanish trade hold out some optimism.

EU Pig Prices: Stifled of Stimuli
EU - The situation is static in Europe's slaughter pig market. Analysts say that overall trade is 'well balanced'.

EU prices: Light at the End of Tunnel?
EU - The situation in the European slaughter pig market remains unchanged.

No Compassion in Cloning
EU - The animal welfare group, Compassion in World Farming, has said that they are appalled at the recently released European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) draft Opinion on animal cloning, as they say it appears sympathetic to a technology with "a long...

EU Throws Frankenfoods Back into the Limelight
EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched its draft scientific opinion on genetically modified 'Frankenfoods', and has concluded that they are safe to eat. The EFSA is now beginning a public consultation on the implications of animal...

EU pig prices: Balancing out
EU - In week two of the New Year, the situation is reportedly 'well-balanced' on the European slaughter pig market.

2007 Comparison of European Pig Prices
EU - Trading levels in the EU pig market are undershot by seven per cent throughout the community compared with last year. Germany is no longer close to Spain and the Netherlands has been outdistanced by France. Poland's pig market started to racing at...

EU Pig Prices: Steady at the Beginning of the Year!
EU - A new year and the situation continues to be extraordinarily calm on the European finished pig market.

Hearing on Animal Vaccines
EU - European Parliament is to hold a hearing on the Community Animal Health Strategy and novel Vaccine Technology early next year.

EFSA-ECDC Annual Report on Animal Infections Transmissible to Humans
EU - Salmonella infections in humans in the EU down, Listeria infections up Campylobacter still most frequently reported animal infection transmissible to humans