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Strengthen Animal Disease Surveillance Worldwide, Urges OIE
2014-12-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Among the lessons to be learned from the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 in Asia and Europe, the World Organisation for Animal Health is recommending a strengthening of animal disease surveillance worldwide.
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Eyeing lobster impact, Maine committee urges ocean acidification action
2014-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Herald: Maine should increase research and monitoring into how rising acidity levels in oceans could harm the state`s valuable commercial fisheries while taking additional steps to reduce local pollution that can affect water chemistry. Those are two major recommendations of a state commission charged with assessing the potential effects of ocean acidification on lobster, clams and other shellfish. The Legislature created the commission this year in response to concerns that, as atmospheric carbon dioxide...
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Scottish Government urges drinks industry to allow minimum unit pricing trial period
2014-12-02 12:07:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The alcohol industry should withdraw its court case against Scotland's plan to introduce minimum pricing per alcohol unit and allow five years for it to be trialled, the head of public health in the country has argued.
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'Don’t Downgrade the Role of Vets in Animal Safety' Urges BVA
2014-11-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Following a report in yesterday's Guardian of recommendations made to the Red Tape Challenge including cuts to health inspections on farms and the use of “non-vets” to carry out bovine TB testing, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has urged Defra to give careful consideration to the role of vets in protecting animal and human health and ensuring food safety.
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San Jose council member urges rejection of Central California refinery's crude-by-rail project
2014-11-25 23:56:13| Railroads - Topix.net
As the deadline arrived for comments to an environmental report on a Central California crude-by-rail project, a San Jose City councilman got the early jump, announcing his opposition in a news release Monday afternoon. The Phillips 66 Company Rail Spur Extension Project would bring as many as 250 unit trains a year with 80 tank cars plus locomotives and supporting cars to a new crude oil unloading facility in Santa Maria from the north or from the south along tracks owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.
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