Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
November 26, 2008
Washington -- The federal order banning extra-label use of cephalosporins in food-producing animals has been revoked -- at least for now.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
November 13, 2008
Washington -- The always-in-danger-of-closing Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) garnered a few extra months of operation, but with drastic cutbacks.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
October 9, 2008
Starkville, Miss. -- Dr. Shane Burgess, a basic-sciences associate professor with Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, along with Drs. Fiona McCarthy and Susan Bridges, received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue work annotating the chicken genome.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
October 2, 2008
Washington - Neither a short-term cash infusion or the $2.5 million in long-term funding promised for the support of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) in this year's Farm Bill came through in time, so the resource used to keep contaminants out of the food supply for more than a quarter century began shutting down Oct. 1.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
September 27, 2008
Nottingham, U.K. The University of Nottingham is using a grant of more than $4 million (USD) to dissect the functions of the bacterium that causes bovine mastitis (BM) and try to come up with a cure for the disease.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
September 24, 2008
Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its guidelines for genetically engineered (GE) animals for research and food production.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
September 19, 2008
Manhattan, Kan. -- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, isn't just a food-born illness, according to a new study conducted at Kansas State University (KSU).
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
August 13, 2008
Beltsville, Md. -- A new vaccine against neosporosis in cattle looks promising, according to researchers conducting efficacy testing at USDA?s Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:
Dan Grooms, DVM, PhD
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) has emerged as one of the most important infectious disease agents in cattle.
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