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Food Producing Animals
21 July 2010

The European Union has released a draft strategy for the control of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases, which proposes to reduce expenditure in this area now that reported cases in Europe are falling off sharply. The European Commission says that an end to bovine spongiform ...

 
21 July 2010

The European Union has released a draft strategy for the control of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases, which proposes to reduce expenditure in this area now that reported cases in Europe are falling off sharply. The European Commission says that an end to bovine spongiform ...

20 July 2010

UK researchers have developed an instrument to measure the methane emitted by ruminant animals. The application arose from a research project at the University of Liverpool to study whether a different diet can reduce the methane – a 'greenhouse gas' associated with global climate change – produced ...

 
07 July 2010

Boehringer Ingelheim has obtained an EU-wide marketing authorization for a new formulation of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Metacam (meloxicam). The company is introducing a 15 mg/ml oral suspension for use in pigs suffering from locomotor disorders and as an adjunctive therapy in the ...

07 July 2010

Pfizer Animal Health has revamped its portfolio of swine respiratory disease (SRD) products in the wake of its integration of the former Fort Dodge Animal Health range acquired last year. The new look was unveiled to the trade press in Brussels last week. The addition of Fort Dodge swine treatments ...

 
12 July 2010

For the first time in Japan since April 2009, there has been an outbreak of Newcastle disease. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE ) confirmed that the outbreak began on the 28th of June on a farm consisting of 58 birds. Thirty-three of these chicks died from this disease, and the ...

12 July 2010

The US state of California has passed a law that will effectively ban the sale of eggs from hens kept in cages from 2015. On July 6th, state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed bill AB 1437, which requires whole eggs sold in California to comply with the animal welfare standards set out in the ...

 
21 July 2010

The European Union has released a draft strategy for the control of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases, which proposes to reduce expenditure in this area now that reported cases in Europe are falling off sharply. The European Commission says that an end to bovine spongiform ...

14 July 2010

Agrovet Market Animal Health , a company based in Lima, Peru, has launched the first triclabendazole injectable solution to be developed and registered in Peru. The antiparasitic is approved for use in cattle, sheep, goats and camelids. The product, Fasiject Plus, contains triclabendazole and ...

 
05 July 2010

The international feed manufacturing business Nutreco has acquired a Vietnamese fish and shrimp feed company to add to its Skretting fishfeed operation, and further its global expansion strategy. The Dutch business has purchased the entire shareholding of Tomboy Aquafeed, the fourth largest ...

12 May 2010

A new strategy to combat the scourge of sea lice among salmon producers has been unveiled in Canada by a UK pharmaceutical company. The development comes at a time when the risk of sea lice infestation and related losses remains high, as some strains of the parasite are becoming more tolerant to ...

 
06 July 2010

Genitrix has become the exclusive UK distributor of a range of premium pet recovery diets made by Oxbow. The diets were developed in the US and are suitable for various carnivorous and herbivorous exotic pets. Key products in the range include Critical Care, Critical Care Fine Grind and the ...

23 June 2010

Two investigational vaccines for Rift Valley fever could offer a more effective way of preventing the disease in livestock and humans, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research. The vaccines produced strong immune responses in mice, they report in the Public ...

 
21 May 2010
Ashley Yeo
While the UK waits with bated breath as to how the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition will allocate the promised initial tranche of £6 billion of cuts across all public sector budgets, farmers are agitating for the axe to fall nowhere near animal health. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
 
 
21 May 2010
Max Pruetzel-Thomas
Dr Kirpensteijn begins his two-year term as WSAVA president in June. Like his predecessor David Wadsworth, he wants to improve the way the organization is run, enabling it to do more and reach further. In his ‘day job’ he is a professor of soft tissue surgery at Utrecht University. His involvement ...
 
18 June 2010
Jamie Day
While the long term global demand for milk and dairy products is set to increase, in the shorter term European dairy farmers are faced with low prices, uncertainty over the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and a move to fewer but larger herds, the 3rd meeting of the European Mastitis ...
04 June 2010
Ashley Yeo
Top-level M&A activity and consequent restructuring of the industry was the talk of 2009. It embroiled all three leading animal health companies and several further down the list. The ripples of these actions are being felt deep into 2010. IBI principal analyst Ashley Yeo describes how the landmark ...
 

15 July 2010
Max Pruetzel-Thomas
The International Cooperation on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for the Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products – or VICH for short – models itself on the ICH project in the human field, but takes account of the particular needs of the animal health industry. Launched in April 1996, ...
 
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