Merial's SAPO Licence Restored
Merial Animal Health has been given the go-ahead to restart making vaccines to protect animals from foot and mouth and bluetongue disease at its Pirbright Centre in the UK.

Festival Bid to Go Free Range
UK - Cambridge Folk Festival could go free range next year after civic leaders pledged to stop using battery-farmed chickens and eggs.

Containing Avian Influenza
UK - Following January’s H5N1 case in wild birds in Dorset, Stephen Lister, one of the local veterinary inspectors during the November outbreak in Suffolk, told Farming Link about the processes involved in containing the disease.

Finding a Role Battling Climate Change
UK - By Chris Harris, Senior Editor, ThePoultrySite. Farmers have a large role to play in combating climate change, according to energy minister Malcolm Wicks.

Giving Customers What They Want
UK - By Chris Harris, Senior Editor, ThePoultrySite. Giving customers what they want and demand is a lesson the farming community needs to heed, was the message from Lucy Neville-Rolfe, executive director at Tesco.

Conservative Leader Warns over Food Crunch
UK - By Chris Harris, Senior Editor, ThePoultrySite. Food security must be a priority, Conservative Party leader David Cameron told the NFU's centenary conference.

Shared Responsibility to Meet Threats
UK - By Chris Harris ThePoultrySite Senior Editor. Farmers and the Government have a shared moral responsibility to make the most of the potential of British farming, in a world increasingly threatened by food shortages and climate change.

Feeding Phytase Offsets Phosphate Prices
UK - According to Danisco Animal Nutrition, adding more phytase to feed presents pig and poultry producers with an opportunity to help offset some of the recent increase in feed phosphate prices.

Biotechnology Can Tap Potential Hidden By Energy Crisis
UK - Fibre is the future and fungus holds the key. That's the opinion of Dr Pearse Lyons, President of Biotechnology business, Alltech.

Bird Flu Monitering in Dorset to Merge
UK - Defra has confirmed that from today the Wild Bird Control Area and Wild Bird Monitoring Area in Dorset will merge.

UK’s Biggest Poultry Firm Served Up for Sale
UK - Grampian, the biggest supplier of meat and poultry to Britain’s supermarkets and one of the country’s oldest food groups, could soon pass into foreign hands.

Cracking Idea - Council Bans Battery Hen Eggs
UK - EGGSELLENT news - Wirral is going battery hen free.

Go-ahead for Free Range Poultry Unit
UK - Lake District National Park planners have given the go-ahead for a free range poultry unit in Lowick Green.

Supermarket Doubles Availability of Free Range Chicken
UK - British supermarket chain Tesco has doubled its order for premium chicken – including Free Range, Willow Farm, Finest and organic chicken available for shoppers.

Bristol Chicken Leg Study Findings Already in Practice
UK - The findings of a Bristol University paper on Leg Disorders in Broiler Chickens published this month is already being p[ut into practice by the British poultry industry, according the the British Poultry Council.