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An Insatiable Global Hunger for Grain
GLOBE - Wheat is by far the most traded grain as it is so adaptable to many uses, but production for the world market has so far been the privilege of a handful of countries.

Through the Looking Glass: WHO Plan for Pandemic
GLOBE - Experts from the World Health Organisation have this week revised their guidance measures that spell out how a country can prepare itself to tackle a bird flu epidemic on a scale yet unseen.

Breeding Companies Unite on Genomics Programme
GLOBE - In an unprecedented collaboration the leading poultry breeding companies Aviagen, Hy-Line International and Lohmann Tierzucht have committed to a combined initiative to evaluate and implement a new genetic technology - Genome Wide Selection...

On The Road: Aviagen Supporting East Europe
GENERAL - As customers face the challenges of elevated feed prices and increasing production costs, Aviagen KFT, part of the Aviagen Group, have recently organised a successful series of seminars in Hungary, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia, working...

DSM Launch Total Concept for Eggs
GLOBE - DSM have released their Total Concept range which they say consists of advanced animal nutrition ingredients, reliable diagnostic testing equipment and state-of the art processing enzymes.

Food for Thought: Does Meat Cause Hunger?
GLOBE - Not bio-fuel, but animals raised for meat are the main reason for the growing shortage of food in the world claims Pune Maharahtra. One-third of the annual global food production is used for feeding animals specially bred and fattened to be killed...

H5N1 Case and Cluster - Cause for Concern?
GLOBE - Last week, a Chinese province named Jiangsu reported a H5N1 infection that they had come to believe was a human-to-human transmission. The mutated virus is believed to have been passed from a son to his father.

Goodspeed Gets Going on Smart Expansion
ASIA - Goodspeed International, Pas Reform's Representative in Thailand, has geared up for further expansion in Asia with an intensive program to train the company's growing number of technicians and support personnel.

Avian Flu: Pandemic Planning to Vaccine Development
GLOBE - The journal, Respirology, has launched a special supplementary issue specifically on avian influenza. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, the collection of papers provide an insight into the threat of the avian influenza pandemic by addressing a wide...

African Farmers Missing Global 'Livestock Revolution'
AFRICA - African farmers are missing out on a global boom in demand for meat products because of out-of-date international regulations.

Year-End Profits Will Spur-on Further Development
GLOBAL - Natural feed additives specialist Kiotech International reports a profit for 2007. Its the first year the business has shown profit since it became a public company in 1997 and proves that its acquisition of Agil just around 18 months ago, has...

Food Prices: What Goes Down Must Come Up
GLOBE - Prices are surging for food commodities worldwide,posing a tough policy challenge for developing countries-can they protect poor consumers without squelching new opportunities for farmers?

A New Approach to H5N1
GLOBE - Manipulating a previously identified protein may be the key to developing an effective H5N1 influenza A virus vaccine say researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo. They report their findings in the March...

A Fingerprint of S. Enteritidis Reveals its True Nature
GLOBE - S. enteritidis remains one of the main causes of food-borne illness and as such is considered to be the most important pandemic zoonosis produced under natural conditions. Currently no treatment is used to modify the mortality and disease incidence,...