Volac recognised for international success
The International Track 200 lists Britain’s private companies with the fastest growing international sales over the last two years. Commenting on the announcement, Volac Chief Executive James Neville said: “Volac is an ambitious business which focuses on providing dairy nutrition for improved productivity and health in livestock and to help people lead healthier and more […]
NPA calls for help keeping deadly disease out of Britain
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus has been present in this country in a mild form for over 40 years. But new strains which have spread from China to the United States are wiping out whole generations of newly-born pigs — and there is no effective treatment. It is essential the new strains are kept out of […]
Strategy for England to become bTB free within 25 years
The strategy sets out action in areas such as disease surveillance, pre- and post-movement cattle testing, removal of cattle exposed to bTB, tracing the potential source of infection and wildlife controls including culling and vaccination trials. It also focuses on the development of new techniques such as badger and cattle vaccines and new diagnostic tests […]
Vets and SQPs: Help ‘Stamp Out Scab’
Vets and SQPs can attend a single training session, being held through to 18th July at sixteen locations across England. Each session provides the latest advice on control and how to help clients control scab effectively. Clinical signs and practical diagnosis are covered, as are treatments, legislation, quarantine and biosecurity, and a session on other […]
Resistance, slaughter and pet vending top the agenda
At the dinner, attended by Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead MSP, parliamentarians, key representatives of animal health and welfare organisations and the agri-food industry, and senior members of the veterinary profession, BVA President Peter Jones called for action on veterinary surveillance, new medicines to tackle the problem of resistance, changes to welfare at slaughter regulations, and […]
Could nineteenth century vets provide lessons for farm animal health policy today?
Nowadays we assume farm animal health is a legitimate area of interest for the state. But 150 years ago the veterinary profession had to develop new areas of understanding and practice to enable this to happen, and a leading academic in the history of human and animal health argues that this could give us some […]
Major funding for research into predicting the health and welfare of dairy cows
Initial work by the team has found that easily recordable immune traits could be used to predict an individual farm animal’s susceptibility, and recovery from, a range of health conditions. Being able to use immune traits to identify health and welfare problems – such as lameness – could be of huge benefit to the industry […]
TB rates in cattle hit lowest level for six years
Incidences of bovine TB (bTB) in cattle have fallen again this month – meaning they are at the lowest monthly rate for six years. (1) Today Defra announced that the incidence of bTB in cattle in March 2013 was 3.6%, compared to 3.9% a year ago, and a drop from 4.7% in December 2012. In […]
Ruma supports call for joint working to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Commenting on Science Minister David Willetts’ statement on antibiotics for the G8 Summit, RUMA Secretary General John FitzGerald said: “The RUMA Alliance welcomes the Minister’s call for the G8 to regard the spread of antibiotic resistance as a global challenge and his comments on the need for responsible use of antibiotics in farming and human […]
