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(04-07-2008)
The government has decided against a widespread cull of badgers to control TB in cattle, according to reports leaked to the BBC.
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(04-07-2008)
A Derbyshire poultry processing company has been hit with a £65,000 fine for employing illegal immigrants.
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(04-07-2008)
A major supermarket group has been given permission to expand its abattoir operation.
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(04-07-2008)
There was “overwhelming” support for a simplified ‘Scores on the Doors’ inspection regime, when stakeholders attended a seminar organised by the FSA in Scotland last month.
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(03-07-2008)
A broiler chicken farm in Somerset has been suspended from the RSPCA’s Freedom Food scheme pending an investigation.
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(03-07-2008)
Defra has announced that the Bluetongue Protection Zone will be extended again on Monday 7 July, following the delivery by Intervet of almost 2 million additional doses of Bluetongue vaccine.
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(03-07-2008)
The EU Commission’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (Scofcah) has voted by qualified majority for changes to the individual recording requirements for sheep and goats.
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(03-07-2008)
The Ludlow Food Centre is one of 234 farm retail outlets to open in the last year – a 15% increase, taking the total number to 1,796.
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(03-07-2008)
South Coast Systems and Weald Packaging are joining forces for a trade open day on Sunday, 20 July.
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(03-07-2008)
A clampdown on butchers playing radios in their shops has been condemned by a Durham butcher as “petty” and “a bit of a witchhunt”.