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Dairy market sinks to eight year low
"While we have been obsessing about the machinations of the GDT, the UK market returns have sunk to an eight...
BPEX launch new disease charter
"The early detection and reporting of these potentially costly diseases would enable rapid response measures to be put in place."...
Scottish surveillance centre may close in 2015
The proposals could represent ‘significant’ changes to the centres in Inverness and Ayr. Consultation begins on changes to disease surveillance...
Moving diagnosis from the lab to the field
“Diagnostic tests in laboratories often take a couple of days to present results, by which stage disease is often set...
Campylobacter found on 73 per cent of chickens
Campylobacter is the biggest cause of food poisoning in the UK. FSA publishes the final results from its year-long survey...
Cucumber disease alerts may help pig farmers
Alison Wakeham spoke at the BPEX Innovation Conference. Air sampling techniques could reduce spread of disease Techniques used for the early...
Vaccine developed for H5N1 and H7N9
This method could shorten the time it takes researchers to make new vaccines for emerging strains. Combination of two viruses...
BPEX publish guides to tackle PED threat
Specialised guides to help the pig industry cope with an outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) have been published by...
Feed forwards – a look at the dairy heifer pipeline
The cost of rearing replacement heifers differs profoundly between the most and least efficient farmers…...
Viruses could be used to treat pig infections
Antibiotic resistance has prompted renewed interest in using phages to treat bacteria. Leicester research will focus on Brachyspira and Salmonella...