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What's new ? - 2010
Arsenic in Field Runoff Linked to Poultry Litter
Arsenic in food supplements passes through chickens, then passes through the field
16 August, 2010
Fields amended with poultry litter can accumulate significant levels of arsenic, according to studies by USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and associates. These findings provide key information about the agricultural pollutants that can build up in agricultural soils over time—and possibly migrate into nearby streams and rivers.
Poultry producers have sometimes supplemented chicken feed with Roxarsone, a compound containing arsenic, to control parasites and promote weight gain. Most of this arsenic is excreted by the birds and then becomes mixed in with sawdust and other litter materials used in poultry houses. Farmers typically use the litter as a nutrient-rich-and free-fertilizer for amending their crop soils.
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Lohmann Animal Health and Suguna create a joint venture in India
11 August, 2010
Lohmann Animal Health - a poultry vaccine manufacturer, having its manufacturing facilities in Germany and USA, joins hand with a poultry company in India - Suguna for a joint venture in India for manufacturing and marketing its range of poultry vaccines. The JV Company - Globion India Private Limited is located at Genome Valley, Hyderabad - India. The total amount of investment in the JV is approximately 15 Million USD.
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W.T.O. nixes U.S. ban on Chinese chicken imports
29 July, 2010
A ruling against the U.S. ban on chicken products from China was delivered by the World Trade Organization (W.T.O.) on July 28, according to China Daily. As a result, the U.S. market will soon open for Chinese finished chicken-breast exports, the report claimed.
The W.T.O. indicated in its interim ruling in June the U.S. ban on Chinese chicken exports was not in accordance with its rules and regulations.
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Sanofi-aventis and Merck Appoint Raul Kohan as CEO for the New Animal Health Joint Venture
28 July, 2010
Sanofi-aventis and Merck & Co., Inc. announced today that Raul E. Kohan will be appointed Chief Executive Officer of their proposed Animal Health joint venture. Sanofi-aventis and Merck - intend to combine Merial with Intervet/Schering-Plough, to create a new global leader in Animal Health to be called Merial-Intervet.
Mr. Kohan is currently President of Intervet/Schering-Plough.
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EFSA looks at the welfare of broiler chickens and their breeding
European Food Safety Authority
28 July, 2010
EFSA’s Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) has adopted a scientific opinion on the influence of genetic selection on the welfare of broilers and another opinion on the influence of housing and management on the welfare of broiler breeders. EFSA’s experts say that most welfare concerns are linked to fast growth rates, a result of genetic selection in chickens.
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USDA approves resumption of chicken exports to Russia
27 July, 2010
The Department of Agriculture has given the green light to U.S. chicken exporters to resume shipments to Russia after nearly a seven month ban by what was once the largest foreign market for U.S. chicken.
The USDA also has released a list of 27 U.S. processing and storage facilities that are now eligible to begin making those shipments to Russia, although many more U.S. plants are expected to soon become eligible.
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California's Gov. Schwarzenegger signs landmark egg Bill
12 July, 2010
On July 6, 2010 California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed A.B. 1437, a bill backed by The Humane Society of the United States that requires that starting in 2015 all whole eggs sold in California must come from hens who were able to stand up, lie down, turn around, and fully extend their limbs without touching one another or the sides of an enclosure.
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Egg production systems and carbon footprint
9 July, 2010
Dr Imke de Boer, an associate professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, presented in a recent study her findings on egg production systems and carbon footprint. A carbon footprint quantifies the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) along the entire life-cycle of a product.
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DEFRA acts on chicken welfare
8 July, 2010
DEFRA has announced that broiler chickens that are reared for meat in the UK must be stocked at the 2007 EU Directive’s lowest suggested density.
The 2007 EU Directive on the welfare of meat chickens (broilers) provides a maximum stocking density of 33 kilogrammes per square metre (approx 16 chickens) but gives Member States a discretion to permit the higher density of 42 kilogrammes per square metre (about 21 chickens) .
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ARS Study Eyes Egg Quality and Composition
7 July, 2010
There's no substantial quality difference between organically and conventionally produced eggs. That's one of a number of findings in an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study examining various aspects of egg quality.
ARS food technologist Deana Jones and her team in the agency's Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit in Athens, Ga., found that, on average, there was no substantial quality difference between types of eggs. So, no matter which specialty egg is chosen, it will be nearly the same quality as any other egg.
About 6.5 billion dozen shell eggs are produced each year in the United States, with a value of about $7 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service.
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FDA: Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals
28 June, 2010
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released draft guidance to help reduce resistance to antibiotics used to treat humans—such as penicillin, tetracycline, and macrolides—with more careful use of the drugs in food-producing animals.The draft outlines the FDA’s current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously in animal agriculture.
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USDA to buy up to $14 mln of chicken to trim glut
18 June, 2010
The U.S. Agriculture Department plans to buy as much as $14 million worth of dark meat chicken products to help producers facing a glut in stocks and decreasing prices.
The U.S. chicken industry lost its top export market for dark chicken meat in January when Russia blocked imports due to concerns about a routine chlorine wash used by U.S. processors. Companies in the U.S. chicken industry, under normal circumstances, sell more than 700,000 metric tons of chicken legs to Russia every year – about 1.5 billion lbs.
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Egypt: Ban on live poultry to go nationwide
Egypt
17 June, 2010
As of July 1, 2010, a ban on the selling of live poultry, which was in place since May 2009 across only five governorates, will be implemented nationwide.
Under the new law, only licensed slaughterhouses with a resident veterinarian are allowed to handle live poultry.
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Research: free-range eggs may be less healthy than regular eggs
17 June, 2010
Contrary to popular belief, paying a premium price for free-range eggs may not be healthier than eating regular eggs, a new study reports. Scientists found that free-range eggs in Taiwan contain at least five times higher levels of certain pollutants than regular eggs. Their findings appear in ACS' bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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WTO against US poultry ban
16 June, 2010
An interim ruling by the World Trade Organization says a U.S. ban on imports of chicken from China violates Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, or the SPS Agreement - which spells out how governments can apply food safety and animal and plant health measures - as well as most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment and general elimination of quantitative restrictions under the WTO legal framework.
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EU-27 Broiler Welfare Directive and Poultry Marketing Regulation to go into effect on July 1, 2010
3 June, 2010
July 1, 2010 is the final implementation date of Council Directive 2007/43/EC of 28 June 2007, known as the poultry welfare directive. This directive lays down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production. As a general rule, this directive limits the stocking densities of poultry to 33 kg/m2, although Member States may still allow higher stocking densities under certain conditions. When an exemption is granted for higher stocking densities the maximum stocking density cannot exceed 39 kg/m2.
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Russia plans 25 percent cut to U.S. poultry imports
3 June, 2010
Russia says it will cut U.S. poultry imports by 25 percent and that it will get other countries to fulfill the amount.
Russia, a major poultry importer, banned all chlorine-treated poultry imports starting Jan. 1, outlawing the 600,000 tons of poultry allowed from the U.S. under revised quotas. U.S. and Russian officials have adopted a plan for renewing trade of poultry between the two countries, Russia and the US reached a compromise by agreeing on the chemicals that satisfy both sides.
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Dioxin
Dioxin in Organic poultry farms in Germany and the Netherlands
10 May, 2010
Dutch and German organic poultry farms are locked because of dioxin contamination in animal feed, according to German and Dutch authorities.
It involves eight farms in the Netherlands and nineteen farms in Germany that cannot sell their eggs for at least a week.
The dioxin infection has been caused by contaminated corn from the Ukraine.
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UK: Bernard Matthews acquires Lincs Turkeys
8 May, 2010
Bernard Matthews Britain's largest turkey producers has announced that it has acquired Lincolnshire-based Lincs Turkeys which specialises in free-range and fresh turkey products. The addition of Lincs to the Bernard Matthews stable will increase its production capacity above 8m birds a year.
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Canada: Egg Farmers Traceability Program
5 May, 2010
The Egg Farmers of Canada are moving forward with a set of national traceability standards.
Canada's egg farmers have got in on the federal program backing national-level commodity groups for development of traceability standards, to the tune of over $800,000.
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China to Levy More Tariffs on U.S. Chicken Imports
28 April, 2010
China will impose an additional duty on U.S. chicken imports of as much as 31.4 percent in response to what it called unfair subsidies for poultry farmers, threatening to deepen a trade rift. An initial investigation showed that the U.S. provides subsidized soybeans and corn to its poultry industry, hurting Chinese producers, the Ministry of Commerce said on its Web site today.
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China may slash imports of U.S. chicken by 55 percent this year
21 April, 2010
China may cut imports of U.S. chicken by about 55 percent as anti-dumping tariffs take effect, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service said in a recent report.
An FAS attaché report posted Monday indicated China's imports of U.S. chicken in 2010 could drop to 150,000 metric tons from 335,000 metric tons forecast last year. The official USDA estimate, meanwhile, sees a reduction to 300,000 metric tons.
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FDA Issues Guidance on New Safety Rules for Shell Eggs
15 April, 2010
Food and Drug Administration published guidance for small egg producers to help them comply with a 2009 federal egg safety regulation designed to prevent Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during production, transportation, and storage.
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Bangkok Ranch acquires Cherry Valley
8 April, 2010
Thailand's Bangkok Ranch Group has bought UK-based duck giant Cherry Valley. Cherry Valley has more than 50 years experience in the production of Pekin meat-type ducks in the UK.
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UK: Antimicrobial resistance report published
25 March, 2010
A report on antimicrobial resistance in the UK has been published by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.
The report summarises data collected in 2007 (or for the most recent previous year if there are no data from 2007) from across the UK for a range of bacterial organisms of medical and veterinary importance in the UK. This information was collated from a variety of sources, including surveys of healthy people, animals and food, as well as from the results of tests on medical or veterinary clinical diagnostic samples.
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FSIS Proposes New Rule To Enhance Safety of Meat Products
FSIS
25 March, 2010
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a new proposed rule that would require its regulated industry to promptly notify FSIS if any unsafe, unwholesome or misbranded meat or poultry product has entered commerce. Also, a company would have to prepare and maintain up-to-date procedures for the eventual recall of its meat and poultry products.
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UK: Businessman jailed for 'free range' fraud
12 March, 2010
A company boss, Keith Owen, was jailed for three years for his part in a scam which saw tens of millions of eggs falsely passed off as free range. The near two-year fraud also led to eggs wrongly labelled as organic being sold to consumers in supermarkets and other stores across the country. He also imported second-rate eggs from France and Ireland, but marked them up as British Lion standard eggs.
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Norwegian poultry farms fail ESA hygiene test
11 March, 2010
After control visits in Norwegian poultry farms, slaughterhouses and factories in January, the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) Surveillance Authority (ESA) concludes that the Norwegian Food Control Authority (Mattilsynet) does not have a good enough hygiene control system for the industry.
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Dutch veterinarians stop using cephalosporins in poultry
10 March, 2010
Following the growing concern about the prevalence of Extended Spectrum Beta-lactamase (ESBL)-carrying bacteria in broilers, the Poultry Health Department of the Royal Dutch Society for Veterinary Medicine (KNMvD) urged veterinarians to stop using cephalosporins in poultry.
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Sanofi-Aventis & Merck to Combine Animal Health Units
9 March, 2010
Sanofi-Aventis and Merck & Co. will combine their veterinary medicine units to create the world’s largest animal-health business with combined sales of more than $5 billion and 14,000 employees.
Sanofi exercised an option to join its Merial business with Merck’s Intervet unit to create the venture, which will be equally owned, the companies. The option was part of an agreement last year when Whitehouse Station, New Jersey-based Merck sold half of Merial to Sanofi for $4 billion.
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The EU organic logo
EU gets 'Euro-leaf' logo for organic food
6 March, 2010
A new EU-wide "Euro-leaf" logo will be compulsory from 1 July for all pre-packaged organic food produced in any of the 27 EU member states.
The green logo, featuring the 12 EU stars in the shape of a leaf, will be optional for imported produce.
Existing national logos for organic food will be allowed to appear next to the new EU logo.
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Izo: joint venture agreement with Merial
5 March, 2010
Izo Spa an italian veterinary vaccine manufacturer, has recently accomplished the acquisition from Merial of a new manufacturing site in Chignolo Po (Pavia, Italy). In this site Izo will produce all Merial's live avian vaccines for the italian market and it will also conduce the QC of all ...
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John Dalli
Extension of the deadline for using unenriched cages
23 February, 2010
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council rejects call to extend battery cage deadline.
The Council took note of a request made by the Polish delegation to postpone the date imposing the prohibition of unenriched cages for laying hens by five years. Council directive 1999/74 lays down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens and provides that the rearing of laying hens in so called unenriched cage systems is prohibited with effect from 1 January 2012.
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Poland is seeking to postpone the cage ban until 2017
17 February, 2010
Poland has now become the first state to formally ask for the ban to be put back. Its submission has gone to the EU’s Agriculture Council and was due to be discussed at a meeting of that council on February 22. Poland argues that imposing the ban in 2012 will lead to a shortage of eggs in the EU and result in lower standard and lower welfare eggs being imported from outside the union.
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China to impose duties on US chicken
7 February, 2010
China is imposing a hefty duty on U.S. chicken of up to 105.4.
Imports of poultry products from the U.S. to China, which has been a profitable business for American poultry farmers, will now be subjected to harsh anti-dumping duties.
The Ministry of Commerce which announced the decision said U.S dumping is hurting China's domestic poultry industry. Once the new directive takes effect Feb. 13, U.S. exporters, including Pilgrim's Pride Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc., will be required to deposit the duty with Chinese customs, pending a final decision on the matter.
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Egypt: Live poultry sales to be banned as of July
5 February, 2010
A government-appointed committee for combating the H5N1 and H1N1 viruses, decided to ban the sale of live poultry nationwide, starting in July. Live poultry will be gradually phased out to be replaced by frozen poultry produced by licensed slaughterhouses.
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Brazil's Poultry Exports Fall by 20%
3 February, 2010
The exports of poultry from Brazil have been 20 per cent less between November 2008 and February 2009. Over the last five years Brazil has been the world's third biggest exporter of poultry, but with the devaluation of 30 per cent of their currency companies have experienced serious difficulties, and falling prices.
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Japan: Poultry meat production, 2008
1 February, 2010
Japanese poultry meat production rose slightly in 2008. The total number of birds slaughtered rose by 0.9% year-on-year to 735 M, while the total live weight increased by 1.7% to 1.985 M tons. The number of broilers slaughtered was up by 1.1% at 630 M, with live weight rising by 1.9% to 1.787 tons.
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Talks with Russia on U.S. poultry imports end
22 January, 2010
Chicken importers in Russia are now looking for alternative suppliers after negotiations with U.S. experts stopped on Jan. 21 without a commitment to reopen the U.S. poultry’s industry’s largest export market.
Russia, which spent $800 million on U.S. poultry in 2008, has banned imports from its largest supplier on concerns related to the use of chlorine in treating the meat a practice routinely used in the United States to kill bacteria that can cause food poisoning.
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Thailand, is prepared to replace U.S. poultry imports to Russia
21 January, 2010
Thailand, a major chicken exporter in Southeast Asia, is prepared to supply poultry to Russia to compensate for U.S. imports that fail to comply with Russian standards.
Russia imposed a ban on the import and sale of chlorine-treated poultry as of January 1, citing new safety requirements. The change in regulations primarily affects U.S. imports, and Washington said it would damage its poultry industry and push prices up for Russian consumers.
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USA: Broiler production expected to increase in 2010
20 January, 2010
Broiler-meat production during the fourth quarter of 2009 is forecast at 8.85 billion lbs. (4 M Tonnes) , down fractionally from a year earlier. The number of broiler eggs being set in incubators during fourth-quarter 2009 and the number of chicks being placed for growout has moved closer to the level seen in fourth-quarter 2008.
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Tyson’s ‘Raised Without Antibiotics’ settlement approved by judge
18 January, 2010
A federal judge signed off on a preliminary settlement of a class action charging Tyson Foods with falsely advertising that its chickens are raised without antibiotics. Tyson agreed to pay up to $50 to anyone who bought poultry that was labeled antibiotic-free. Payments will be capped at $5 million and do not include $3 million in attorneys fees.
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California chicken farmers might consider relocating
14 January, 2010
A year after Californians approved stricter rules on the treatment of farm animals, Idaho and other states are trying to lure away the Golden State's poultry and egg farmers with promises of friendlier regulations and lower costs.
In Idaho, Republican state Sen. Tim Corder said he would introduce legislation designed to attract California chicken farmers who might consider relocating. In Nevada, Pershing County is aggressively recruiting poultry farmers in California, the nation's fifth-largest producer of eggs. Georgia's poultry industry also has reached out to some California farmers in a bid to woo them eastward.
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Russia: Poultry Prices Rise After Chlorine Ban
14 January, 2010
Russian poultry prices have risen as much as 20 percent since health officials banned U.S. imports Jan. 1, raising concern among domestic producers that they won’t be able to meet demand.
Wholesale prices have reached about 70 rubles ($2.36) per kilogram, from about 58 rubles at the end of December.
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Tyson settles consumer class-action suit for $5M
13 January, 2010
Tyson Foods Inc. has settled a consumer class action suit targeting its chicken "Raised Without Antibiotics" claim.
An agreement filed Tuesday (12/01) night in U.S. District Court in Baltimore provides that individual consumers will receive as much as $50 apiece. Tyson must shell out $5 million. Less $600,000 for administrative costs, $4.4 million is available to parties who bought certain products between certain dates in 2007 and 2009.
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