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02 September 2010

The French veterinary pharmaceutical group Ceva has acquired a majority share in the US companion animal health business Summit VetPharm LLC. Japan's Sumitomo Corporation, which previously owned the company, will remain a minority shareholder. Summit VetPharm will keep its Rutherford, New Jersey ...

25 August 2010

Professional Veterinary Products (PVP), a distributor of animal health products in the US, has filed for voluntary bankruptcy under the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Code. A company statement attributes the decision to file for Chapter 11 to the fact that its “ability to generate profits has been ...

23 August 2010

Argenta, the New Zealand animal health company, is to receive $2.1 million of state assistance to develop an improved device to administer multiple doses of drugs to sheep and cattle. The grant aid is through the Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST), a New Zealand publicly-funded ...

18 August 2010

Merial , the animal health business currently owned by sanofi-aventis, has reported respective revenue growth of 2.5% and 1.5% for the second quarter and half year stages of fiscal 2010. Q2 net sales totaled $667 million, a 2.5% increase on the same period of the 2009 trading year, with a net ...

 
06 September 2010

Natural feed additive supplier Kiotechagil has launched a new broad spectrum toxin binder, with added mould control, which is designed to combat the problem of mycotoxin contamination in feed and raw materials. It says mycotoxins are now widely recognised as being one of the biggest problems ...

06 September 2010

Net revenue from the Alpharma Animal Health business totaled $85 million during the second quarter of 2010, compared to $83 million in the second quarter of 2009. Alpharma, a wholly owned subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals, develops, registers, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for ...

03 September 2010

The Brazilian launch of the Meriden’s Orego-Stim feed additive range for swine has taken place at the Pork Expo & 5th International Forum on Swine Production in Curitiba. Meriden staff attended this recent event along with the distributor, Imuvet Commercial Ltda. Steve Harris , Managing Director of ...

03 September 2010

Australian pharmaceutical company and animal health company Stirling Products reported a net loss of A$5.32 million (US$4.8 million) for the year to June 30th, 2010, compared to a loss of A$5.08 million (US$4.6 million) a year ago. Company revenue was down 33% to A$451,063. No dividend was ...

 
06 September 2010

An in-depth research study in Finland has discovered that Finnish cows prefer silage containing red clover, which also boosts their milk production. However, due to the challenge of cultivating and conserving the crop compared to grass forage, only an estimated one-fifth of the silage used by ...

06 September 2010

Net revenue from the Alpharma Animal Health business totaled $85 million during the second quarter of 2010, compared to $83 million in the second quarter of 2009. Alpharma, a wholly owned subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals, develops, registers, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for ...

03 September 2010

The Brazilian launch of the Meriden’s Orego-Stim feed additive range for swine has taken place at the Pork Expo & 5th International Forum on Swine Production in Curitiba. Meriden staff attended this recent event along with the distributor, Imuvet Commercial Ltda. Steve Harris , Managing Director of ...

03 September 2010

Finland has introduced new feed tables which recommend reduced mineral intakes for feedstuffs intended for pigs, poultry, horses, sheep and fur-producing animals. The revision of mineral requirements published by MTT Agrifood Research is intended to avoid excessive mineral intakes, particularly ...

 
Pfizer Distinguished Service Award for US cattle vet The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) has given its Pfizer Animal Health Distinguished Service Award to Mark Spire , a veterinarian who works with Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health and who is a former AABP president. Dr Spire, based in Manhattan, Kansas is a technical ...
Pfizer Animal Health appoints meat scientist Dr Aubrey L Schroeder has joined Pfizer Animal Health’s US pork business unit as a meat scientist. He will provide technical expertise to the business and will ensure that Pfizer’s products and services are successfully implemented in pork packing plants and in further processing. He has more than ...
Scottish animal health firm appoints new director Expanding Scottish firm Animal Health (Highland) has appointed Jane Menzies as a director. Ms Menzies takes over from owner Bill Fotheringham who is moving to an advisory role at the animal health and nutrition business. Her previous roles include being an estate administrator at the Inverlael ...
 
26 April 2010
Alan Bullion
The next British government is being urged to focus on food security and environmental concerns, ahead of the general election that has been called in the UK for May 6th. The party manifestoes show that food security has risen up the political agenda since the last election. Two animal health ...
 
 
20 August 2010
Ashley Yeo
Farmers and veterinarians were surprised this summer when the usually pragmatic UK veterinary regulator, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, proposed a ban on the advertising of antimicrobials to farmers. Generously, the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH), the UK animal health industry trade ...
06 August 2010
Jamie Day
Veterinary Encapsulation Services (VES) of Queensland, Australia use the first Forum to present its VetCap remote delivery system to treat grazing animals with a pour-on antiparasitic treatment to control flies and ticks as well as internal parasites. Essentially using a ‘paintball’ with 10ml of ...
 
06 August 2010
Ashley Yeo
Animal health industry representatives attending the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) review on June 30th were of a single mind: while agreeing with the conclusions and recommendations of the E&Y evaluation of the agency, published in January 2010 (and released to the public in April), a ...
 
Wim van Cotthem on Pfizer's integration of Fort Dodge
20 July 2010
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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, ...
 
19 August 2010
Nathalie Caplet
To get through the financial storm, the Ceva group rallied all staff around some key projects to streamline its expenditure in 2009. Freezing acquisitions and recruitment (except for a few key positions), while still investing strongly in its R&D and production sites, was a strategy that paid off. ...
 
 
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