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So long I/SPAH…

While it is always sad when long-established brands disappear from the animal health market, Merck and Co's decision to rebrand its Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (I/SPAH) division as either Merck Animal Health (in North America) or MSD Animal Health (in the rest of the world) makes a lot ... Read More

Posted 01 July 2011

by Jamie Day,

Sanofi times out the Merial-Intervet merger

The mutual decision to terminate the merger of Merial and Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (I/SPAH) after a whole year of preparatory work and restructuring planning was a surprise. The joint venture between respective parent companies sanofi-aventis and Merck & Co would have been the global ... Read More

Posted 25 March 2011

by Jamie Day,

Somatic cell counts and cheese

A recent media briefing organized by Pfizer Animal Health highlighted the importance of somatic cell counts as a diagnostic tool and a measure of milk quality. A high cell count in bulk milk means a farmer will get a lower price for his product, but how does the quality of milk affect those further ... Read More

Posted 14 October 2010

by Max Pruetzel-Thomas,

KC Homecoming Dinner 2010

The fifth annual Kansas City Animal Health Corridor Homecoming Dinner attracted over 750 animal health industry delegates to the Muehlebach Tower at the Marriott Downtown Hotel in Kansas City on August 30th. The event comprised a networking cocktail reception, the impressively organised dinner ... Read More

Posted 28 September 2010

by Jamie Day,

Animal welfare is a UK election issue

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 ... Read More

Posted 26 April 2010

by Alan Bullion,

European Pet Night 2010, Brussels
Animal Pharm attended the European Pet Night , organized by IFAH-Europe (International Federation for Animal Health Europe), and talked to Declan O'Brien, managing director of IFAH-Europe, Anne Birgitte Lundholt, managing director of the Danish Association of the Veterinary Pharmaceutical Industry, ...
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Posted 12 March 2010

by Barbara Axt,

Reporter

So what can I eat?
If there was one thing to remember the last decade by, I'd say it was the decade of "don't eat". Don't eat meat. Don't eat seafood. Don't eat GM. If the 90s were characterised by the advances in animal cloning (hello, Dolly), the last decade was characterised by chastisements by NGOs and ...
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Posted 15 January 2010

by Salina Christmas,

Editor, Multimedia

Kansas Corridor comes of age
I have just returned from a visit to Kansas City, Missouri in the US. I went to experience the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor (KCAHC) concept in action at first hand, and I was very impressed. Regional government and the animal health industry have worked together very cleverly, since a ...
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Posted 14 September 2009

by Jamie Day,

Editor

What's technology got to do with it?
This is another story about globalisation, and the kind of fierce protectionism it provokes. Since the BSE scare reached it in 2003, Canada has been in a position where it has to fight for its meat industry on several fronts. Digitalhandshake Trading bynumbers What's technology got ...
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Posted 27 April 2009

by Salina Christmas,

Editor, Multimedia

Things we don't usually think about
In the Philippines, as you may be aware, the Ebola-Reston virus was found in farmed pigs, prompting the cull of 6000 animals in order to prevent the spread of the disease. However, as the culling of thousands of pigs is not a quick and easy operation, it took authorities one week to slaughter all ...
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Posted 13 March 2009

by Barbara Axt,

Reporter

Choose not to have a choice
The Kansas Department of Agriculture, in US, is considering a new law that will forbid dairy producers to display in their labels that their cows are free from synthetic growth hormones. Recombinant bovine somatotropin is an artificial growth hormone developed by Monsanto and sold under the brand ...
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Posted 03 December 2008

by Barbara Axt,

Reporter

Sharing - it's a good thing
“If you sequence a virus and you leave it in the drawers for three years, you might as well not sequence it,” says Ilaria Capua, the Italian virologist and director of the OIE/FAO Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie in ...
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Posted 20 November 2008

by Salina Christmas,

Editor, Multimedia

Vet Medz
Last night on my way home from work I picked up a copy of one of the free papers used by commuters all over London to quicken their journey and distract themselves from the 20-60 minutes that they spend each day squashed insanely close to strangers’ armpits. Somewhere between the latest on ...
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Posted 14 October 2008

by Naomi Gill,

Divisional Marketing Manager, IIR UK

Don't eat meat and save the world?
The beef burger epitomises all the ingredients the modern consumer is hooked onI am quite intrigued by a reader’s response to Mojtaba Tegani’s weblog on the World Poultry News. Tegani’s reaction to the United Nation (UN)’s Dr Rajendra Pachauri’s prescription on ...
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Posted 10 October 2008

by Salina Christmas,

Editor, Multimedia

Keeping track of problems
Nobody asked for electricity when it was invented. Thanks to marketing and powerful lobbying, electricity is now something both businesses and consumers can’t do without. A research flock at the US Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho, USA. Unlike their USA counterparts, the EU ...
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Posted 28 July 2008

by Salina Christmas,

Editor, Multimedia

 
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