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Archive 2010
Monday July 12, 2010
Conference “Food for the 21st century”

“Food for the 21st century” was the title of the conference, organised on 8th July by the European Commission DG Research at the European Parliament.

 
Friday June 25, 2010
 WVA veterinary schools and faculties database

The WVA veterinary schools and faculties database is now available on internet

 
Thursday June 24, 2010
OIE's Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres

The 227 Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres representatives met at the OIE Headquarters in Paris from 21 to 23 June

 
Thursday June 24, 2010
News from the European Parliament

Clearer and more cosistent food labeling rules and call for strong European aquaculture sector

 
Thursday June 17, 2010
35th World Small Animal Congress and FECAVA Euro Congress

Veterinarians from more than 75 nationalities attended the 35th World Small Animal Congress

 
Thursday June 17, 2010
EPRUMA website launched

Epruma multi-stakeholder platform now on the web

 
Thursday June 17, 2010
7 International Forum on Health

Animal welfare and food safety: farmers' contribution

 
Thursday June 17, 2010
EU Vet week 2010

Shielding animal health and ensuring food safety through traceability

 
Friday June 04, 2010
Workshop on pig welfare

This workshop on "Pig welfare – castration of piglets" was held on Wednesday 2 June 2010, at Berlaymont Building, Walter Hallstein Room

 
Thursday June 03, 2010
Better Training for Safer Food

Information Day to raise awareness of the Better Training for Safer Food Initiative (BTSF)

 
Thursday June 03, 2010
European Association of Porcine Health Management

The foundation of the European Association of Porcine Health Management (EAPHM) took place during the 2nd European Symposium on Porcine Health Management in Hannover (Germany) from May 26 to May 28, 2010.

 
Thursday June 03, 2010
Veterinary training and Directive 2005/36/EC

This is part of a report drawn by the OIE Director Mr Vallat

 
Thursday May 27, 2010
World Veterinary Association Presidents’ Assembly

Over 30 worldwide representatives of national and regional veterinary associations attended the extraordinary WVA Presidents’ assembly in Paris on 22 May

 
Thursday May 27, 2010
Animal Welfare

European Animal Welfare Platform and FAO Gateway to farm animal welfare Celebration!

 
Thursday May 27, 2010
From the European Parliament

Animal disease surveillance systems in the EU and the ban for bovine and porcine thrombin

 
Thursday May 27, 2010
Forthcoming meetings

35th Annual World Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress, SFCH World Summit

 
Thursday May 20, 2010
FVE Secretariats Meeting

The next FVE Secretariats meeting will take place at FVE Office in Bruxelles.

 
Thursday May 20, 2010
EU to support small - scale farming in developing world

Food security assistance to developing countries should focus on supporting small-scale food production and farmers, the EU development Ministers said

 
Thursday May 20, 2010
International Committee for Animal Recording

The 37th Session of ICAR will take place from 31st May to 4th June 2010 in the City of Riga, Latvia

 
Thursday May 20, 2010
FAO-OIE-WHO Joint Scientific Consultation

The second FAO-OIE-WHO Joint Scientific Consultation on Influenza and Other Emerging Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal Interface was held in Italy.

 
Wednesday May 12, 2010
EFSA activities

EFSA report on Q fever

 
Wednesday May 12, 2010
Next TAIEX meeting in Ukraine

Next TAIEX and FVE workshop in Kiev

 
Friday May 07, 2010
DG Sanco Commissioner visit in USA

Mr. J. Dalli, responsible for DG Health and Consumer Policy, visited Washington last week

 
Friday May 07, 2010
EU Animal Welfare Action Plan

Resolution drafted by MEP Ms. Paulsen approved

 
Friday May 07, 2010
Food and Veterinary Office (FVO)

The last 5 inspection reports available on the website

 
Thursday May 06, 2010
FVE and UEVP Medicines Working Group The FVE and UEVP Medicines Working Group met on 14th April 2010 in Brussels
 
Monday May 03, 2010
World Veterinary Association

Council and extra-ordinary meeting of the President's Assembly

 
Thursday April 29, 2010
Seafood industry crisis

For developing countries getting fish to market is becoming harder

 
Thursday April 29, 2010
OIE General Session

The 78th General Session of the World Assembly of OIE Delegates

 
Wednesday April 21, 2010
FVE met Mr. J. Dalli

FVE delegation, headed by President W.Winding, spoke with the recently appointed
EU Commissioner for “Health and Consumer Policy” Mr J. Dalli.

 
Wednesday April 21, 2010
EFSA reports

EFSA has published a technical report on veterinary drug residues in animals and food

 
Wednesday April 21, 2010
Impacts of increasing meat consumption

Eating the planet: feeding and fuelling the world sustainably, fairly and humanely –  a scoping study

 
Wednesday April 21, 2010
Post graduate education

MSc in global health: pathogens and policy

 
Friday April 16, 2010
DG Sanco

New EU Commissioner announces plans for new animal health law

 
Friday April 16, 2010
Food 2030

Food 2030 is the new UK Government’s food strategy

 
Friday April 16, 2010
Publications

ECDC/WHO and ESFA publications

 
Friday April 16, 2010
European Association for Animal Production

61st Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production

 
Thursday April 08, 2010
EU news

DG SANCO new General Director and EC policy paper on food security

 
Thursday April 08, 2010
EFSA analysis

EFSA european overview of dioxin levels in food and feed

 
Thursday April 08, 2010
UK Fish Labeling Regulations 2010

New rules for fish labeling came into force for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

 
Wednesday March 31, 2010
African swine fever

EFSA Scientific Opinion on African Swine Fever adopted on 11 March 2010

 
Wednesday March 31, 2010
TAIEX

Animal Welfare: from cure to prevention

 
Wednesday March 31, 2010
Animal welfare audit systems should be simple and objective

Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Welfare Symposium

 
Wednesday March 31, 2010
No piglet castration without anesthetics

Belgium is one of the country in which a nationwide approach is taken to revise castration procedures

 
Wednesday March 31, 2010
Upcoming Conferences

EC International Conference on Animal Welfare Education, AWSELVA, EAAP

 
Friday March 19, 2010
Dialrel

Final conference of the DIALREL (Dialogue on Religious Slaughter)

 
Friday March 19, 2010
Internship at FVE

Epidemiological surveillance networks

 
Friday March 19, 2010
Salon International de l’Agriculture

The last Salon International de l’Agriculture was held in in Paris from February 27th until March 7th 2010

 
Thursday March 11, 2010
Non-commercial movement of pet animals

The European Parliament has voted 618 votes to 17 for an extension to transitional arrangements of the Reg. 998/2003

 
Thursday March 11, 2010
Cancun Congress on World Livestock, 20 April 2010

Defining policies and mechanisms to assure that people of the world will have safe and sufficient food at all times

 
Thursday March 11, 2010
Special Readings

FAO Animal Production and Health Division Proceedings: Brucella melitensis in Eurasia and the Middle East

 
Thursday March 04, 2010
EPRUMA (European Platform for the Responsible Use of Medicines in Animals)

The 11th meeting of the EPRUMA Group was held on 25th February

 
Thursday March 04, 2010
European Pet Night 2010

Both FVE and FECAVA attended the 2010 edition of the European Pet Night in the European Parliament last Wednesday

 
Thursday March 04, 2010
Upcoming meetings

L’homme et l’animal: une santé a preserver. Maladies communes et zoonoses

 
Wednesday February 24, 2010
Animal welfare labeling

The Agriculture and Fisheries Council agreed that consumers need more information to make purchasing decisions based on animal welfare.

 
Wednesday February 24, 2010
Special reading

The State of the Food and Agriculture 2009 (SOFA): Livestock in the Balance

 
Wednesday February 24, 2010
OIE updates technical online disease cards

OIE Reference Laboratories released an updated compilation of 33 technical disease cards

 
Wednesday February 24, 2010
The 5th IDF International Mastitis Conference 2010

The Conference (21-24 March 2010 Christchurch, New Zealand) will report on innovative research and other advances in the understanding of mastitis being achieved worldwide.

 
Monday February 08, 2010
Q fever increasing in humans

The European Commission asked EFSA to provide urgent scientific advice to inform possible EU risk management measures  with regards to human Q fever cases.

 
Monday February 08, 2010
MEPs want EU farm policy to ease climate change

Members of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee agreed that EU farm policy can help slow climate change

 
Monday February 08, 2010
International conference on emerging vector-borne diseases

The EDEN (Emerging Diseases in a Changing European Environment Project) International Conference on emerging vector-borne diseases in a changing european environment will take place on 10 - 12 May 2010 in Montpellier, France.

 
Monday February 08, 2010
Surveillance and outbreak reports

Campylobacteriosis was the most commonly reported zoonosis in the European Union (EU) for the last five years followed by salmonellosis and yersiniosis

 
Monday February 08, 2010
Vaccination against Foot-and-Mouth Disease: new report from Dutch Researchers

The following report "Vaccination against Foot-and-Mouth Disease: differentiating strategies and their epidemiological and economic consequences" was recently released by the end of January.

 
Thursday January 28, 2010
New FVE leaflet

The new useful FVE leaflet is now available on the FVE website.

 
Thursday January 28, 2010
BVA sends strong message on anthelmintic use

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has launched on Friday 22 January a guidance poster containing powerful messages to vets to encourage the responsible use of anthelmintics in grazing animals, following ongoing concern about the development of resistance to these medicines. 

 
Thursday January 28, 2010
New EU animal welfare policy under evaluation

 In November 2009 the Commission appointed an external consultant to evaluate the EU policy on Animal Welfare.

 
Thursday January 28, 2010
Food, Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land – A vision for 2020

The BSAS (British Society of Animal Science) conference will be at the Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland   from 12 - 14 of April 2010.

 
Thursday January 28, 2010
International Conference on Production diseases in Farm Animals (ICPD)

The ICPD conference will be held from 20-24 of June 2010 in the city of Ghent (Belgium).

 
Wednesday January 27, 2010
Veterinary medicinal products and vaccines

Veterinary medicinal products and vaccines: indispensable tools for any effective animal health and welfare policy.

 
Tuesday January 19, 2010
Earthquake in Haiti

FVE would like to express its sincere sympathy with the Haitian people for the serious consequences they are currently experiencing as a result of the earthquake from 12 January.

 
Tuesday January 19, 2010
EFSA: external reports on Sarcocystis, Trichinella, Echinococcus and Cysticercus

Last week European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published four external reports on the development of harmonized schemes on Sarcocystis, Trichinella, Echinococcus and Cysticercus.

 
Tuesday January 19, 2010
World Veterinary Day award 2010

This years World Veterinary Day will be celebrated on Saturday, 24th April, 2010.

 
Tuesday January 19, 2010
Website launch: Western Balkans Veterinary Network for Animal Welfare

Recently a new website for the Western Balkans Veterinary Network for Animal Welfare (WBVN) was launched: www.wbvn.net

 
Wednesday January 06, 2010
FVE hosts Secretariat for World Veterinary Association

Brussels, January 2010: The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) is pleased to announce that since 1st of January FVE is hosting the Secretariat of the World Veterinary Association (WVA). This will continue the work of the Danish Veterinary Association in Copenhagen, who hosted the WVA Secretariat since 1994.

 
Tuesday January 05, 2010
FVE announces Members of renewed Food Hygiene Working Group

The FVE Board recently agreed on the composition of the renewed Working Group on food hygiene.

 
Tuesday January 05, 2010
EFSA: Salmonella in breeding pigs in the EU

The results of an EU-wide survey on Salmonella in breeding pigs were published by EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) in December 2009.

 
Tuesday January 05, 2010
Parliamentary hearing: Commissioner-Designate for Health and Consumer Policy

The parliamentary hearing of the Commissioner-Designate for Health and Consumer Policy, Maltese John Dalli, will take place on 14 January in the European Parliament in Brussels.