Animals will be held on other hog and poultry farms, USDA said, where feed tests have found melamine, where feed samples have not been submitted for tests, or where feed samples are not available. The Agriculture Department said there was no need to quarantine livestock on farms where melamine or related compounds could not be detected in animal feed, perhaps because it makes up only a small share of the feed. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Farmers will be allowed to sell 20 million chickens that...

Zhongpin is a meat and food processing company that specializes in pork and pork products and vegetables and fruits, in the PRC. The new Luoyang City facility is expected to increase Zhongpin's capacity for chilled and frozen pork by over 20% in 2008 based on the planned capacity expansion in 2007. Disclaimer: If you have any questions regarding information in these press releases please contact the company added in the press release. These two facilities are scheduled to be brought online...

The students and their faculty mentor in the College of Engineering s Institute for Maintenance Science and Technology (IMST) have developed two new, cost-effective techniques producing ethanol from wood and other biomass and capturing methane, a greenhouse gas, and converting it into methanol. The students and their faculty mentor in the College of Engineering s Institute for Maintenance Science and Technology (IMST) have developed two new, cost-effective techniques producing ethanol from...

Hogs at some of the farms it wasn't immediately clear which have been quarantined. Hogs that were confirmed to have eaten the tainted food were processed at a federally inspected facility in California, Cohen said. The FDA said it planned to begin testing a wide variety of vegetable proteins at firms that imported the ingredients to make everything from pizza dough to infant formula, and protein shakes to energy bars. It was not immediately clear if any hogs that ate the tainted feed then...

Food and Drug Administration of a less-than-perfect vaccine against bird flu is only the beginning of the search for a truly effective shot against the virus, experts said. Luckily, the annual search for a vaccine against seasonal flu is helping scientists as they seek immunization against its much deadlier cousin, H5N1 avian influenza. According to experts, avian flu vaccines are essentially made in the same way as the regular flu vaccine. That's much lower than the regular seasonal flu...