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Regulatory Updates

Save Our Bacon Act aims to counteract Proposition 12

Introduced by Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson on July 23, the Save Our Bacon Act “would alleviate this overregulation by prohibiting state and local governments from interfering with the production of livestock in other states.”

Brand Insights

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Pig Health & Disease

FFAR, SHIC, Pork Checkoff fund H5N1 swine research projects

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) and the Pork Checkoff are funding 10 projects totaling US$2.1 million through the H5N1 Risk to Swine Research Program to enhance prevention, preparedness, mitigation and response capabilities for H5N1 influenza.

Animal Welfare

Pork state legislators say Proposition 12 harms pigs

House Agriculture Committee hears how the California law was 'drafted by people who have no experience' in working with livestock.

African Swine Fever

Study: US needs stricter controls to contain ASF

Current rules would likely fail to control a hypothetical outbreak in the U.S., research concludes.

Avian Influenza

Let-it-spread approach to HPAI 'dangerous and unethical,' researchers say

Allowing HPAI to run rampant in pursuit of herd immunity could devastate the industry and damage rural economies, researchers from Johns Hopkins University say.

Regulatory Updates

Proposition 12 ‘like a wrecking ball’ to small restaurants

Latino Restaurant Association leader tells House Agriculture Committee the law placed economic pressure on restaurants that were already operating on “razor-thin margins.”

African Swine Fever

ASF hits pig farms in Poland, South Korea

After a four-month disease hiatus in the country, pigs at a farm in South Korea have tested positive for the African swine fever (ASF) virus.

Avian Influenza

Study: H5N1 has major economic costs for dairy industry

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus causes severe mastitis and decreased milk production in dairy cows, a drop-off that may extend beyond the clinical outbreak period.

African Swine Fever

Early detection, advanced traceability vital if ASF hits US

Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory director shares concerns about African swine fever with members of Congress.

Avian Influenza

Vaccinating cattle for H5N1 protects poultry, other animals

California’s state veterinarian tells U.S. House subcommittee that because infected dairy cattle are allowed to develop immunity after exposure, that puts birds and other mammals at risk.

Dairy Cow Health & Disease

New theory on milk fever in cows may also benefit human health

Professor Burim Ametaj, a nutritional immunobiologist in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta, has introduced a new perspective, which he calls the Calci-Inflammatory Network.

Avian Influenza

How personnel can drive dairy-to-poultry HPAI transmission

The number of pathways that avian influenza can be transferred between dairy herds, and to poultry flocks, is extensive.

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