The Codex Alimentarius is an international code of model food law. If governmental legislation is in compliance with Codex standards it cannot be successfully challenged under the rules of the World Trade Organisation. After the European feed scanda...

20 nov 2006

"This year's Agromek theme: High efficiency with special focus on livestock welfare and the environment shows that we must have production to function properly so that we can continue to satisfy the high demands for livestock welfare and the environ...

01 mar 2006

Feed is often seen as the weakest link in the food chain. The European feed industry, united in Fefac, has been working on a code to ensure safer feed for many years. In a Fefac/Taiex seminar* in Bratislava, Slovak Republic Fefac president Martin Tie...

01 jun 2005

Mass killing and destruction of healthy animals as a remedy to embank outbreaks of contagious animal diseases is no longer accepted by the general public in terms of welfare and in terms of costs. New strategies must be thought over, which indirectly...

01 feb 2005

The European feed industry fights for fairer prices for farmers and for global feed safety standards. Meanwhile the EU accession countries promise medium-term expansion possibilities.

01 oct 2004

Together with the final phasing out of in-feed antibiotics comes a tightening up of the feed rules in general. In addition, the new feed additives legislation will ensure that only products with proven safety and efficacy can be placed on the market...

01 dec 2003

It's "all change" with the EU's feed additives rules. But will the new, streamlined procedures really make the registration process more efficient?

01 jun 2003

As per July 1^st, 2003, a transition period will end and two European directives will become fully active: Directive 1999/92/EC (ATEX 137) and Directive 94/9/EC (ATEX 95). These will have an impact on both companies with an explosion hazard (gas, vap...

01 may 2003

The European Commission issued a questions and answers fact sheet to update interested parties on the current situation regarding the use of genetically modified organisms in the EU. The main subjects cover (revised) legislation in force and the legi...

01 mar 2003

Some fifty percent of US farmers’ income comes from government subsidies, says Prof. Michael Boehlje of Perdue University. It seems the large farms profit most from governmental aid. EU farm subsidies, however, are more beneficial to the countrysid...

01 nov 2001