Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 28 January, 2006 Police capture two crocodiles kept as pets Police on Friday captured two crocodiles being kept as housepets in a house in southern Portugal, officials said. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 28 January, 2006 U.S. poultry markets dealing with bird flu fears The odor is the first clue, a sharp barnyard smell that seems out of place on a stretch of the Lower East Side near a Burger King and a Dunkin’ Donuts. Hand-lettered signs advertise in English, Spanish and Chinese: live chickens, ducks, quail, pheasants. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 28 January, 2006 Drought affects cattle market Despite the current drought, the cattle market's booming. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 28 January, 2006 Tests on 67 cattle where new BSE case was found in Alberta: CFIA Investigators have found 67 cattle that were born on the Alberta farm within a year of the latest cow that tested positive for BSE. ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 26 January, 2006 Meat distributor sentenced for placing false labels on chicken A San Antonio wholesale meat distributor was fined $40,000 for mislabeling frozen chicken in an attempt to dodge a 2002 Mexican ban on Texas chicken. ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 26 January, 2006 Fact or Fiction?: The Chinese Eat Dogs For hundreds of millions of Chinese around the world, Sunday will mark the beginning of the Year of the Dog, which is a fitting symbol for the cultural differences that have to be bridged between China and the rest of the world. ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 26 January, 2006 Salmon breeder hooks Chile deal Scottish salmon breeding company Landcatch Natural Selection has secured about a 14% share of the world Atlantic salmon egg market in 2006, helped by a major acquisition in Chile. ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 26 January, 2006 Herpes found in Laurel pony An outrider pony has been moved from Laurel Park into isolation at Pimlico Race Course after the horse tested positive for the equine herpesvirus, according to officials with the Maryland Department of Agriculture and the Maryland Jockey Club. ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 26 January, 2006 Missouri boasts of its beef in Asia Talk about bad timing. Less than a week after Japan banned all U.S. beef imports, a delegation headed by Missouri’s top agricultural official arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday night on a previously arranged mission to promote the state’s beef. ...more _______________________________________________________

Wednesday, 25 January, 2006 New Case of Mad Cow Disease Found in Canada A cow in the Province Alberta, Canada, has tested positive for Mad Cow disease Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials said Monday. ...more _______________________________________________________

Wednesday, 25 January, 2006 Jakarta chicken vendor has bird flu -ministry An Indonesian chicken seller in Jakarta is in hospital after being infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus according to local test results, a senior Health Ministry official said on Wednesday. ...more _______________________________________________________

Wednesday, 25 January, 2006 Taiwan lifts US beef ban, sets conditions Taiwan's Department of Health on Wednesday conditionally lifted a ban on the import of US beef, allowing the meat back into the market for the first time since the restriction was imposed last June due to mad cow disease. ...more _______________________________________________________

Wednesday, 25 January, 2006 Europe prepares its defences against bird flu "We are the best prepared region in the world but we still have much to do" - in other words vigilance is the watchword. This was the message given by Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, in a discussion with MEPs on Monday. ...more _______________________________________________________

Wednesday, 25 January, 2006 Bad dogs face death penalty Menacing dogs in Alachua County that are deemed dangerous by county officials must be euthanized, the County Commission decided Tuesday. ...more _______________________________________________________

Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 Thousands of sheep perish in Vic bushfires Up to 50,000 sheep have died or will need to be put down as a result of bushfires in Victoria's west. ...more _______________________________________________________

Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 Kazakhstan strengthens bird flu prevention efforts Sanitary, quarantine and customs control over the people arrived from Southeast Asia has been tightened at the border ...more _______________________________________________________

Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 Arab health ministers to meet for bird flu session Health ministers from the League of Arab States (LAS), an association of Arab nations, will meet in Cairo Tuesday for an emergency session on bird flu. ...more _______________________________________________________

Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 Japan Confirms BSE Case in 64-Month-Old Cow Japan has confirmed that a 64-month-old cow that died last week in Hokkaido, northern Japan, had mad cow disease, the country's 22nd case, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Tuesday. ...more _______________________________________________________

Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 Canada Confirms 4th Mad Cow Disease Case The U.S. agriculture secretary said there are no plans to stop importing Canadian beef after the country detected another case of mad cow. ...more _______________________________________________________

Monday, 23 January, 2006 Britain culls grey squirrels A controversial plan is about to come into place in Britain to save the endangered native red squirrel, and it'll come at the expense of the country's cutest pest, the grey squirrel, which delights tourists but is detested by many locals. ...more _______________________________________________________

Monday, 23 January, 2006 Washington : Dog Saves Sheep From Barn Fire Diane Pagel and her husband, Jeff Freeman, thought they lost everything in a barn fire, including family photo albums, one-of-a-kind guitars, three vehicles and more. ...more _______________________________________________________

Monday, 23 January, 2006 Japan to inspect all U.S. beef imports Japan has ordered inspections of all U.S. beef imported over the past month, calling for a full explanation of an American violation of the countries' beef pact. ...more _______________________________________________________

Monday, 23 January, 2006 France investigating possible bird flu case France is investigating a possible case of bird flu in a French woman who has returned from Turkey, the French health ministry said today ...more _______________________________________________________

Monday, 23 January, 2006 Bird Flu Virus Could Spill Over To Africa And Europe In Springtime The avian influenza virus could become entrenched in the Black Sea, Caucasus and Near East regions through trade and movement of people and animals and it could be further spread by migratory birds particularly coming from Africa in the spring ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 21 January, 2006 Japan again bans U.S. beef after backbone gets into shipment Just 5 1/2 weeks after lifting its ban on U.S. beef, Japan slammed the door shut again Friday, saying a recent shipment contained material it considered at risk for mad cow disease. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 21 January, 2006 Gene controls cereal grass architecture A gene in cereal grasses plays an important role in controlling plant architecture, a team of U.S. scientists reported. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 21 January, 2006 Tsunami takes toll on India's seafood exports Seafood exports from India were badly hit by the December 2004 tsunami, which ruined many shrimp aquaculture farms along the country's southern coast. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 21 January, 2006 Compromise on fish farms One of B.C.’s large salmon farm operators has reached an agreement with environmental groups to move its adult Atlantic salmon away from the wild salmon migration route on the Broughton Archipelago during this spring’s migration. ...more _______________________________________________________

Saturday, 21 January, 2006 Mare at PN has positive herpes test A horse based at Penn National Race Course has been diagnosed with a case of equine herpesvirus. ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 19 January, 2006 Strong chicken exports despite bird flu fears: USDA U. S. chicken exports will total "a very strong" 5.405 billion lbs. (2.45 billion kg) this year, despite a slight downturn in forecasts due to concerns about bird flu, the U.S. Agriculture Department's chief economist said on Wednesday ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 19 January, 2006 Iraq bird flu test sparks alarm in poultry market Alarmed poultry traders in Baghdad markets feared economic catastrophe as word spread on Wednesday that Iraq was testing a dead girl for bird flu ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 19 January, 2006 Bird Flu Hits Poultry Production in Bulgaria and East Europe Bird flu is causing serious damages to poultry production in Bulgaria and East Europe,Bulgarian poultry producers fear they will be forced to halve output ...more _______________________________________________________

Thursday, 19 January, 2006 Attorney General Meets with Poultry Farmers over Oklahoma Dispute Attorney General Mike Beebe has met with northwest Arkansas poultry farmers to discuss that state's dispute with Oklahoma over chicken litter ...more _______________________________________________________

Wednesday, 18 January, 2006 Wild bird suspected to carry H5N1 virus in HK The result of preliminary testing of a dead Oriental Magpie Robin found in Sha Tau Kok, Hong Kong indicated a suspected case of H5N1 avian influenza, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said in HK Friday. ...more _______________________________________________________

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