Climate Change and Disease Challenges Linked
FRANCE - Climate change will have considerable impacts on the emergence and re-emergence of animal diseases, warned delegates at the General Assembly of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

France Wants Help with Exports
FRANCE - At next week's meeting of the European agricultural council, France will call for the reintroduction of pigmeat export subsidies.

Study on Replication of Porcine Circoviruses
FRANCE - Porcine circoviruses (PCV) have been found to replicate in a way similar to plasmids and single-stranded viruses. Florence Faurez and colleagues at the French Food Safety Agency (Afssa) in Ploufragan...

Pfizer’s Vaccine Against Boar Taint Approved
FRANCE - Pfizer Animal Health today announced that The European Commission has given Pfizer the go-ahead to market its innovative swine vaccine, Improvac®, across the European Union (EU).

France Plans National Research Consortium
FRANCE - French farm and fisheries minister Michel Barnier and research minister Valerie Pecresse have announced a plan to create a national research consortium to manage the country's food, farming and...

Heavier Litters for Sows on High-Fibre Diet
FRANCE - Piglets born from sows fed the high-fibre diet during pregnancy grew faster than those from sows fed a standard control diet, without compromising sow body weight or backfat.

New Membrane Bioreactor Passes the Test
FRANCE - A membrane bioreactor performed well in greatly reducing odours and soluble phosphorus levels in wastewater at a small piggery, according to research at the University of Rennes.

Award Handed for Study of E.coli Infection
FRANCE - Jean-François Daudelin received the first prize of the Rosell Probiotic Challenge for his study concerning the effects of Bactocell® and Levucell® SB administration on F4+ enterotoxigenic E....

Lallemand Pursues Growth Strategy in NZ
FRANCE - Lallemand Animal Nutrition has acquired New Zealand animal nutrition company, Vitec Nutrition Ltd.

SIAL Report: Talks to Open New Export Markets
FRANCE - Quality Meat Scotland is in talks with the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs in a bid to unlock potentially valuable export markets in Dubai and Hong Kong.

French Industry Places Salmonella Research Contracts
FRANCE - The French pig institute IFIP (Institut de la Filière Porcine) this month has highlighted the importance of reducing salmonella incidence in the country’s pig industry.

White Knuckle Ride Continues for French Pig Industry
FRANCE - While French pig producers finally started to see finished pig prices catch up with production costs in August, according to the French national agricultural statistics agency Agreste, they have...

Jean Caby Closes Plant
FRANCE - Jean Caby, manufacturer of cooked pork products and subsidary of French food group, Aoste, has announced its plan to shut down its factory in Saint-Priest-en-Jarez in the Loire department, before...

SPACE Sees Rationalisation of French Industry
FRANCE - SPACE is one of the few remaining livestock shows that is still held annually. This is in part due to the fact that thousands of farmers from Brittany and Normandy continue to descend on Rennes...

Dynamic Group Housing for Sows
FRANCE - Mr. and Mrs. Sergaent will be opening their farm's doors to the public on Friday, September the 19^th.

Pfizer: Former Schering-Plough Products Added
FRANCE - Pfizer Animal Health has announced that its acquisition of multiple product franchises in Europe from the Schering-Plough Corporation has been completed and approved by the European Commission....

Terrena Turns Its Attention Downstream
FRANCE - The merger of French pig co-ops Cooperl and Terrena's pig-producing arm Arca is being agreed this week and take effect on December 31. However, the final effective membership on January 1 is unlikely...

Hypor Finalizes France Hybrides Bid
FRANCE - Hypor, the pig breeding division of Hendrix Genetics, has acquired France Hybrides from Groupe Glon.

Big Dutchman: Rebuilding of Fire Ravaged Sow Farm
FRANCE - Paul, David and Vincent Pelletier from La Chapelle Thémer in the west French departement Vendée have not given up: just one year after a fire almost completely destroyed the sow farm of the Pelletier...

French Pig Industry Body Faces Constitutional Row
FRANCE - France's largest pig co-operative Cooperl is preparing to merge with smaller co-operative ARCA. The result will be France's largest pig business, producing 7million pigs/year.

Rémi Maguer New Manager of TOPIGS France
FRANCE - TOPIGS is pleased to announce the appointment of Rémi Maguer (48) as manager for TOPIGS France.

French Pig Producers Make Use of Electronic Sow Feeding
FRANCE - Last May, a new facility for 250 pregnant sows was brought into operation in Sergent, Brittany, France.

France Calls for End to Lower Quality Imports
FRANCE - In a memorandum to the European Union Farm Council, France is calling for an end to the distortion of competition that takes place when imports are allowed into Europe from countries with lower...

Lending an Ear to the 76th Annual OIE Session
PARIS - Approximately 600 participants representing the 172 OIE Member Countries and organisations took part in the 76th Annual General Session of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The session...

Food Producers Unite Against Retail Domination
FRANCE - A seven-strong alliance of French food production industry bodies is opposing proposed legislation that would remove such protection as the current law affords from unreasonable retailer dema...