The antimicrobial resistance data among zoonotic and indicator bacteria in 2011, submitted by 26 European Union Member States, were jointly analysed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Data covered resistance in zoonotic Salmonella and Campylobacter isolates from humans, food and animals, and in indicator Escherichia coli and enterococci isolates from animals and food. Data on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals and food were also presented.

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The European Commission has approved 22 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries.

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At the edge of the new century the European Commission ?adopted the directive on the protection of farming animals. For pigs, group housing for gestating sows is a well-known outcome. The directive is likely to influence market prices for pigs. How much?

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Ministers were briefed on the state of play of trilogues between the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission on the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

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At a high-level conference organized with the Irish Presidency, Copa-Cogeca and other key stakeholders presented detailed views on the EU Commission package designed to strengthen animal and plant health, seeds and safety measures in Europe.

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Nine countries with predominately smaller farms have signed a common declaration urging the presidency to exempt farmers receiving less than 5,000 euros from cuts under the financial discipline. Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Romania, Poland, Latvia and Bulgaria are protesting that attempts by the UK, Denmark and the Czech Republic to lower the threshold were unacceptable. There are plans for a 5% cut to direct payments this year to establish an agricultural crisis reserve and the secure sufficient funds for aid to new Member States.

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The downward trend has come to a halt, having hit rock bottom. The German, Belgian, Dutch, Danish and Austrian quotations are moving sideward, all of them showing balanced market situations.

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The European Commission has adopted a package of measures to strengthen the enforcement of health and safety standards for the whole agri-food chain. Food safety is essential to ensure consumers' confidence and sustainability of food production

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The additional costs of compliance with EU sow welfare rules is being blamed for short pig supplies and high prices in Spain, while the slump in US pig meat exports is attributed to the Russian ban on meat imports from animals given ractopamine. Under pressure from retailers,

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Last week’s trend continues on the European slaughter pig market, with the quotations swinging back noticeably

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The National Chicken Council (NCC), USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC), and the National Turkey Federation (NTF) - in response to the Federal Register notice of 1 April 2013 Document 2013-07430 soliciting public comment - have submitted a statement to express its views that any new trade agreement with the European Union (EU) must provide for real and meaningful market access to the European market for US poultry. Without a successful outcome for poultry in the TTIP Agreement, the US poultry industry will seriously question the need to support such a bilateral trade agreement.

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A total of €230 million of EU agricultural policy funds, unduly spent by Member States, is being claimed back by the European Commission under the so-called clearance of accounts procedure.

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Farmers’ organisations from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Denmark call on the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Commission to guarantee that if any funds are transferred by a Member State from pillar 1 to pillar 2 , they must be match funded by national co-financing’.

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The markdowns range from a corrected minus 5 cents in Belgium to minus 1 cent in France. As a result of the slight price decrease in France, the German quotation ranks fifth again within the European price structure of the five major pig-keeping nations.

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After France continued its downward trend by a corrected minus 3.8 cents on Thursday other quotations in Central Europe followed suit on Friday.

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been requested to provide advice by the European Commission (EC) on the impact on Public (Human) Health and Animal Health from the use of antibiotics in animals. Potentially, this is very good news, as long as the conclusions have not been pre-written.

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The European Commission have recently decided to take Greece and Italy to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the failure to correctly implement Directive 1999/74/EC banning "un-enriched cages" (battery cages).

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New incentives continue to be missing and market participants keep waiting.

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The volume of beef produced in 2012 in the European Union (EU) decreased by 4% to total 6.9m tonnes.

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The European Commission has today published proposals to provide transitional arrangements in 2014 for certain Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) rules, notably the system of Direct Payments.

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A European Commission measure to revise rules on imports of food and feed originating from Japan following the Fukushima nuclear accident has ben endorsed by experts meeting in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH).

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On 17 April 2013 in Niigata, Japan, the General Assembly of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) unanimously adopted a proposal by CEJA for differentiated and specific terms of membership, with favourable membership fees for young farmer organisations, in order to guarantee young farmer participation from across the world.

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At the Council meeting this week, ministers were briefed by the Presidency on the state of play of the informal trilogue process on the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

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Intensive farms like piggeries with methane capture projects to reduce emissions will still be better off financially, despite a collapse in the carbon credit market in Europe.

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The States is stepping up its demands for easier access to the European pigmeat market.

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The global pork market has been stable in the first quarter of this year, with supply and demand more or less in balance.

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The European Commission must act quickly on unfair practices in the food supply chain through legislation, the NFU said today.

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Europe's persistent recession and a spring swoon in the U.S. economy are hurting the prospects of the global recovery this year, the International Monetary Fund said.

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The world’s financial focus seems to have switched away from commodities and back to economics.

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Commission publishes European test results on horse DNA and Phenylbutazone: no food safety issues but tougher penalties to apply in the future to fraudulent labelling

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As international debate continues on the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Neogen Europe Ltd. has launched easy 10 minute tests to detect ractopamine in animal and animal feed samples.

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Board of Eurasian Economic Commission for Europe - the management body of Custom Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) has decided to exclude the fresh, chilled or frozen pork, poultry meat and processed products from the list of imported goods from developing and least developed countries with the special tariff preferences.

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This week, the prices on the EU slaughter pig market appear to vary.

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Rabobank’s global cattle price index has shown the shoots of recovery but is down 8 per cent year on-year, in the face of growing inflation, Rabobank say this leaves the outlook mixed.

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Five per cent of the samples taken in the European-wide tests on beef products have been found to be contaminated with horse meat.

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The European Medicines Agency is to provide advice on the impact on public health and animal health of the use of antibiotics in animals.

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AFTER three decades of squabbling, the authorities in Brussels and Washington meet in Dublin this week to take the first concrete steps to hammer out a historic new trade deal.

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AkzoNobel Salt Specialties launches ground breaking one-to-one sodium reduction solution for processed meat – incorporating Givaudan’s flavour expertise

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The European Commission is threatening England with legal action over the use of perches in free range egg units.

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Copa-Cogeca has urged EU institutions to ensure that findings on the reports by the EU Commission are fully reflected in the final agreement on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expected in June.

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MSD Animal Health (known as Merck Animal Health in USA and Canada) announced the European approval of a new indication for Panacur AquaSol (fenbendazole 200 mg/mL) to effectively treat swine infected with Trichuris suis (T. suis), a whipworm found worldwide that causes multifocal inflammation.

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Board of Eurasian Economic Commission for Europe - the management body of Custom Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) has decided to exclude the fresh, chilled or frozen pork, poultry meat and processed products from the list of imported goods from developing and least developed countries with the special tariff preferences.

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The Pigtek Pig Equipment Group now offers sow producers an advanced ad-lib lactation feeder.

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The European Court of Auditors has hit out at some EU states for using food processing subsidies as a general support and not as a means of supporting value-added measures.

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To ensure the fresh meat stays fresh, BT9 have launched a new system Xsense which has been designed to mimise risks to poultry and meat quality by providing real time monitoring information and enable decision makers to take immediate action if necessary.

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Five per cent of the samples taken in the European-wide tests on beef products have been found to be contaminated with horse meat.

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Beef production is no longer profitable for many farmers as a late winter and heavy rains are making feed provision extremely tough.

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The global pork sector has experienced a stable first quarter in 2013, with supply and demand more or less in balance, resulting in stable prices for the Rabobank five-nation finished hog price index.

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Why, after the vote at the European Parliament and the last Council of EU Ministers of agriculture, is CAP reform not already adopted?

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High pressure production processes can increase the microbial hazards associated with mechanically separated meat products, according to the European Food Safety Authority.

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Campylobacteriosis is the most reported zoonotic disease in humans, with a continuous increase in reported cases over the last five years, according to the annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union.

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Owing to the trend reversal producers have been longing for, the European slaughter pig market is playing it safe this week.

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Owing to the trend reversal producers have been longing for, the European slaughter pig market is playing it safe this week.

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Danisco, Solae and Qualicon have recently been combined into one robust business called DuPont Nutrition & Health.

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High-pressure production processes used to mechanically separate meat increase the risk of microbial growth, although microbiological risks associated with mechanically separated meat are similar to those related to non-mechanically separated meat, a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel concluded.

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President Barack Obama used Washington's grandest stage - the State of the Union speech - to announce negotiations with Europe aimed at creating the world's largest free trade agreement.

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Scientists have developed an entirely synthetic vaccine that triggers response through minute protein shells.

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USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a final rule that, effective 15 April, will ease the requirements for imports of live poultry from the European Union by making the following changes.

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Copa-Cogeca has urged EU institutions to ensure that findings on the reports by the EU Commission are fully reflected in the final agreement on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expected in June.

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Africa needs to bail out its agriculture sector much the same way that the European Union (EU) is bailing out the banking sector in the eurozone, says the head of the Department of the Rural Economy and Agriculture at the African Union (AU) Commission, Rhoda Peace Tumusiime.

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