“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.

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

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

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

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

Epruma multi-stakeholder platform now on the web

Animal welfare and food safety: farmers' contribution

Shielding animal health and ensuring food safety through traceability

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EFSA report on Q fever

Next TAIEX and FVE workshop in Kiev

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

Resolution drafted by MEP Ms. Paulsen approved

The last 5 inspection reports available on the website

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

For developing countries getting fish to market is becoming harder

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

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

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

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

MSc in global health: pathogens and policy

New EU Commissioner announces plans for new animal health law

Food 2030 is the new UK Government’s food strategy

ECDC/WHO and ESFA publications

61st Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production

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

EFSA european overview of dioxin levels in food and feed

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

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

Animal Welfare: from cure to prevention

Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Welfare Symposium

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

EC International Conference on Animal Welfare Education, AWSELVA, EAAP

Final conference of the DIALREL (Dialogue on Religious Slaughter)

Epidemiological surveillance networks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.