Food safety and traceability

29 April 2024

Find out about the food safety subgroup of the Pig Health and Welfare Council.

22 January 2024

Trichinella testing is a legal requirement for breeding herds and pigs that are raised in non-controlled housing. Find out more about preventing the disease and the testing requirements.

5 May 2020

Symptoms, treatment and prevention of the viral liver disease

30 September 2022

Learn more about salmonella in pigs and how to reduce the risk of infection.

3 June 2024

Find out about meat safety and eating quality, from preventing zoonosis, to avoiding boar taint.

2 October 2019

The course, aimed at practical people wishing to gain more knowledge on quality issues, highlights the distinction between carcase and meat quality and will explore the factors affecting eating quality from farm to fork. Various quality issues will be identified and the means to reduce or improve these outlined.

18 December 2019

Gloucester pig club: Hear about the key messages from the Alltech conference held in the USA earlier this year.

22 July 2019

New report reveals the full extent of Brexit’s potential implications for British beef and lamb supply chains

9 July 2019

Pig Health and Welfare Council launches biennial report at the Great Yorkshire Show

9 July 2019

This report recounts the activities of the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) during 2017 and 2018. This has been a challenging time, with the PHWC working to enable the industry to introduce changes in practices that are necessary to meet the targets in respect of reducing antibiotic usage and driving up welfare standards across production systems.

29 April 2024

AHDB is soon to extend isotope testing on pork to include local butchers shops.

18 June 2019

Calculate rainfall-related mycotoxin scores and target T3 fungicide sprays in wheat

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