She did not give details on the requirements but said it must make correction of some structural deficiency and this may take some time although there are items in the recommendations that the plants already had made the necessary corrections. Rafael Mercado, Department of Agriculture (DA XI) chief for livestock division said that they are monitoring closely the compliance of the recommended measures set by AVA even as he said that hopefully the plan to export pork meat to Singapore would...

Jun 21, 2007 (CIDRAP News) A study from the University of Iowa suggests that veterinarians who work with poultry have a significantly higher risk of infection with avian influenza, compared with nonveterinarians. However, Halvorson expressed doubt about the authors' idea that, in view of their findings, vets should have priority access to pandemic flu vaccines. Further analysis of the data revealed no evidence that the elevated avian flu antibodies were accidental results of seasonal flu...

Swift's domestic pork operations returned to normal production levels in March, but staffing at the beef plants didn't get back to normal until this month. Greeley-based meatpacker Swift & co., the target of huge immigration raids last year, will be sold to a Brazilian company in a $1. The announcement comes about four months after Swift, which was the target of wide-scale immigration raids in December, said it had hired banker JPMorgan to help consider a potential sale. beef exports to...

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Blogospheric commentators used the language of formal cinematic criticism or just let fly with off-the-chain gushing normally seen in 12-year-old boys. In particular, scroll down for the entry from a self-styled "film theologian" who offers his exegesis on parallels between the movie and the scriptural Book of Kings. Everyone seems to agree that the CGI sets a new record in coolness, the action sequences are numerous and fast-moving, and the new incarnations of the '80s toys trend are, if...