AHW ARCHIVE

2010

15 June 2010

Livestock Health South East Project - Managing the small pig herd workshops

ADAS is delivering a series of workshops as part of the Livestock Health South East Project. These events will be...

20 May 2010

Future Regulation of Veterinary Medicines in Europe

The manufacture, quality control, registration, distribution and packaging of veterinary medicines are controlled by a plethora of European Regulations and...

07 April 2010

Does Sheep Dipping have a Future?

Plunge dipping of sheep in water both to wash fleeces and as a way to control ectoparasites has been carried...

09 February 2010

New developments in veterinary vaccines

Infectious disease is still the most important veterinary problem in farm animal medicine. While there are vaccines available for many...

20 January 2010

Hydatid disease - reducing the risk

Hydatid disease is a serious parasitic zoonotic condition associated with sheep farming in the UK and many other parts of...

18 January 2010

Pointers for outdoor pigs

The practice of rearing pigs outside for part or all of their life has seen a dramatic increase over the...

15 January 2010

Animal Health & Welfare Workshops on Tail biting

ADAS, together with industry professionals and a Veterinary Animal Health Officer, are to hold 10 early evening workshops (7 pm...

2009

09 October 2009

Reports available on impacts of changing pesticide availability: arable and forage crops

ADAS has a series of projects assessing the impacts of changing availability of pesticides. This follows changes to EU...

13 August 2009

Assessing the Environmental Impact of Veterinary Medicines

The use of all medicines, both veterinary and human carries the potential for risk of harm to the environment. Some...

29 June 2009

Review of Zoos’ Conservation and Education Contribution

Defra has commissioned ADAS to review the conservation and education
activities carried out by zoos. Since 2003, the Zoo Licensing Act...

25 June 2009

At risk from ticks?

Ticks represent a risk to humans, farm and pet animals and recent climatic changes have allowed a marked increase in...

03 June 2009

'Swine flu’ not a disease of pigs but of humans

A recent article on 'Swine Influenza and Factory Farming' produced by CIWF suggested a link to human health from farming...

14 May 2009

Swine flu demonstrates growing risk from zoonoses

Zoonoses are diseases that can spread from animals to man or indeed vice versa. They have been with us throughout...

06 April 2009

Venison: top for waist and taste

A collaborative research project led by ADAS has found that venison not only contains significantly less fat than other red...

02 April 2009

Food: Safety takes priority over price for EU regulators

A series of crises in the European Union (EU) in the latter part of the last century, including the BSE...

02 April 2009

Greenhouse gas emissions and the livestock industry: the importance of production efficiency

Economists and agricultural scientists tend to be optimistic in their assessment of the world's ability to support its rapidly growing...

02 April 2009

Resistance to Veterinary Medicines

The development of resistance is a major issue in both human and veterinary medicine. It impacts on the availability and...