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Sales of antibiotics for use in food-producing animals dropped by 18% between 2016 and 2017 to reach a new low of 37 mg/kg, official Government figures show.

Farming Minister George Eustice has sought to reassure the pig and poultry sectors over the Government’s position on post-Brexit food import standards. 

A committee of MPs has called on the Government to commit to requiring post-Brexit imports of meat and dairy products to meet our standards of antibiotic use on farms.

African swine fever (ASF) has been detected in southern China for the first time, prompting fears that the virus is ‘already everywhere’.

The Belgium government has released approximately €1m to reimburse farmers for the culling of more than 4,000 pigs in the (ASF) infected zone. 

Liam Fox attempted to reassure an AHDB export conference that the UK has no intention of allowing lower standard imports into the UK after we leave the EU.

NPA members have expressed an overwhelming desire for animal health initiatives to be recognised under a post-Brexit animal health policy.

China has suffered its biggest and most serious outbreak of ASF as the disease was confirmed on a farm with nearly 20,000 pigs.

The French authorities will begin erecting a fence on the Belgian border this weekend to try and keep African swine out of the country.

A total of 75 wild boar have now been confirmed with African swine fever (ASF) in Belgium.