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Defra clarifies position on pig tail docking
"Pig farmers need to demonstrate at inspections that tail docking has been used as a last resort…" Producers increasingly penalised...
€5.6m funding to tackle ASF and LSD
LSD entered Europe, the Balkans and Caucasus for the first time in 2015 and caused the deaths of thousands of...
Novel technique to identify foot-and-mouth
The method takes samples from areas that animals who are susceptible to FMD make contact with. Simple swabbing method can...
University of Bristol initiative honoured at antibiotic awards
University of Bristol Veterinary School receives its award in the Agriculture & Food category. AMR Task Force wins in the...
Researchers develop new viral vectored poultry vaccine
MD and IBD are both highly infectious diseases and associated with high mortality rates. Development could lead to vaccines that...
CO2 shortage putting poultry welfare at risk
60 per cent of the British poultry meat sector uses CO2 to stun birds as part of the slaughter process....
