FVE Newsletter May 2008

• Rabies: Don't smuggle death!
• Biosecurity: FVE and DG SANCO to organise European Veterinary Week
• EU Parliament to re-allow swill feeding to swine?
• Commission to review loading densities and travelling times
• Commission to carry out feasibility study
• Developing a global strategy on farm animal welfare
• FVE MRSA Conference: Raising awareness is key to control
• Chemical decontamination of poultry carcasses
• Towards a legal basis for the evaluation system
• FVE now associate member of the World Veterinary Association
• Dr Tjeerd Jorna, Knight in the Order of Oranje Nassau

FVE Newsletter March 2008

• Comments on Community Animal Health Strategy
• EU Vet Week, an innitiative of FVE and DG Sanco
• FVE urges Member States to prepare for bluetongue vaccination in 2008
• FVE welcomes Commission ban on battery cages
• Improving the welfare of slaughter animals
• Technical stakeholder meeting in view of revising current animal transport legislation
• Clonning: scientifically safe, but ethical concerns?
• FVE MRSA conference
• FVE Workshop for candidate countries in the EU veterinary medicines legislation
• FVE sets out priorities for 2008
• European Veterinary Code of Conduct finalised

FVE Newsletter December 2007

• New EU Animal Health Strategy
• Climate change: impact on animal health
• Pet travel scheme: reliable identification essential
• Transport of live animals: many infringements noted
• Audit frequencies in cutting plants
• Stakeholders meeting on critically important antimicrobials
• Implications of the Bologna declaration
• FVE GA: One Health high in the agenda
• Future MRSA and Bluetongue conference planned

FVE Newsletter October 2007

• EU Animal Health Strategy 2007-2013
• FVE/TAIEX workshop on classical swine fever in Romania
• FMD in the UK
• Call for limiting number and length of transport of farm animals
• The EU will ban fur from cats and dogs from 2009
• EFSA EU-wide survey on salmonella
• EFSA and FDA strengthen cooperation
• FEEVA elects Joe Collins as president