Novartis Animal Health has announced that it is restarting the distribution of stockpiled veterinary products from the US plant that was voluntarily closed last month (Animal Pharm January 20th). There is no schedule for the resumption of manufacture, although the company says this is a top ...

The confirmed presence of the Schmallenberg virus in five European countries has led to an urgent request from the European Commission for a risk assessment. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to advise how the virus could manifest itself in animals over the coming months. Virus experts ...

The final two members of the newly created Animal Health and Welfare Board for England (AHWBE) have been appointed. Richard Davis , a dairy and arable farmer from North Bedfordshire, and Jonathan Rushton , an economist and senior lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College in London have been ...

Novartis Animal Health has announced that it is restarting the distribution of stockpiled veterinary products from the US plant that was voluntarily closed last month (Animal Pharm January 20th). There is no schedule for the resumption of manufacture, although the company says this is a top ...

Merck and Co has decided to base its Animal Health division – trading as Merck Animal Health in the United States and Canada and MSD Animal Health in the rest of the world – at the Merck Campus in Summit, New Jersey in the US. The move follows a period of uncertainty over the headquarters location ...

The Spanish Divasa-Farmavic (DFV) Group has made a significant investment in expanding its capacity to produce veterinary pharmaceuticals in Europe. These will be made both under its own brands and through contract manufacturing arrangements. The expansion is part of the company’s 2008-12 strategic ...

Elanco Animal Health is to acquire a feed enzyme business in a move that is in line with its strategy to become involved in wider aspects of the food animal production chain. The business, a division of Eli Lilly and Company , has agreed to acquire the ChemGen Corporation, a privately owned held ...

Elanco Animal Health is to acquire a feed enzyme business in a move that is in line with its strategy to become involved in wider aspects of the food animal production chain. The business, a division of Eli Lilly and Company , has agreed to acquire the ChemGen Corporation, a privately owned held ...

A new vaccine to tackle hemorrhagic septicaemia amongst India's cattle and buffaloes is to be developed. Animal health firm Indian Immunologicals (IIL) has teamed up with a consortium of national and international organisations to develop the vaccine. IIL is one of India's leading veterinary ...

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of the German multinational, has launched Ingelvac MycoFLEX, a new-generation swine mycoplasamal pneumonia vaccine to suppress the development of lung lesions and alleviate weight loss caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in pigs. Ingelvac ...

Novartis Animal Health KK, the Japanese arm of the global business, has obtained market authorization in Japan for Feline Milbemax Flavor Tablets (milbemycin oxim and praziquantel) for the control of Toxocara cati (cat large round worm), Ancylostoma tubaeforme (cat hookworm) and Dipylidium caninum ...

Avian flu has been found at two duck farms in the state of Victoria in Australia. The Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF) said that it was a low pathogenic strain of avian flu and that the government was working quickly to eliminate the disease. The virus was detected during routine testing ...

The New Zealand Animal Health Board (AHB) is opposing a move by the Waikato Regional Council in North Island to scrap the funding for a long-running bovine TB control program. The Council has proposed removing NZ$825,000 ($675,000) funding for bovine tuberculosis control in possums and ferrets from ...