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Weekly Overview: PED Crosses into Canada
2014-01-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Canada has announced its first outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED), eight months after the United States was hit by the disease that has already affected 23 states and cost the lives of an estimated four million pigs. In the UK, changes in feed formulation have helped the pig industry there significantly reduce its climate change impact, while food security has returned to the top of the global political agenda.
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