TheCattleSite Latest News: France
21 October 2008
SIAL REPORT: Talks to Open New Export MarketsFRANCE - Quality Meat Scotland is in talks with the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs in a bid to unlock potentially valuable export markets in Dubai and Hong Kong....
29 September 2008
Surge of Cull Cow Slaughterings in FranceFRANCE - French cattle slaughter figures are showing a 1.6 per cent year-on-year drop in the total cumulative calendar year to August 31 at 3.3 million, according to the national agricultural statistics agency Agreste. ...
23 September 2008
SPACE Sees Rationalisation of French IndustryFRANCE - The vast majority of the big agricultural shows or trade fairs have opted to appear every two years, writes Stuart Lumb....
26 August 2008
France Confirms New Cases of BTV8FRANCE - Due to a circulating virus in the areas of the Ardeche, Ardennes, Aube, Ille et Vilaine, Lot, Meuse, Upper Rhine, the Savoie, Yvelines and the Essonne, the French bluetongue control zone has been expanded. ...
09 June 2008
Camembert Raw Milk Rules ApprovedFRANCE - French authorities have approved revisions for the production of Camembert cheese, which only allows products derived from raw milk to carry the sought after AOC Appellation Contrôlée (AOC) Camembert de Normandie. ...
03 June 2008
Lending an Ear to the OIE 76th Annual SessionPARIS, FRANCE - Approximately 600 participants representing the 172 OIE Member Countries and organisations took part in the 76th Annual General Session of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The session discussed the global progress of animal...
21 May 2008
OIE say US Beef Risk Status will Remain UnchangedFRANCE - A senior official of the the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has said that they will not automatically revise the United States' national risk classification if a mad cow case is confirmed there....
14 May 2008
Food Producers Unite Against Retail DominationFRANCE - A seven-strong alliance of French food production industry bodies is opposing proposed legislation that would remove such protection as the current law affords from unreasonable retailer demands....
05 May 2008
French Abatoirs Deemed ScandalousFRANCE - It has been reported that almost half of the slaughterhouses in France fail to conform to European standards of hygiene, as per a memorandum from the Directorate General of Food (DGAL)....
02 April 2008
French Farming DialogueFRANCE - The French farm minister Michel Barnier is encouraging fellow citizens to discuss where their food comes from on a new Website parlons agricuture. ...
17 March 2008
Taking the Raw Out of CamembertFRANCE - Claims have been made, by a leading France-based cheese manufacturer, that one day soon camembert producers will be forced to stop using raw milk in in the manufacturing process due to potential health concerns....
10 March 2008
French Debate National Animal WelfareFRANCE - French farm minister Michel Barnier has nominated three working group chairmen for France's national animal welfare plan Animals et société. ...
07 March 2008
Fewer Than 300 Traditional Vets in FranceFRANCE - The shortage of vets is a European problem, but France has a very specific set of problems. Like every other French professional body, the Ordre des Veterinaires (OV), sets a quota for the number of students that can go forward for training....
05 March 2008
Intervet to Supply France With Minimum of 27 Million Doses of Bluetongue VaccineFRANCE - Intervet is working intensively to supply the Bovilis BTV 8 vaccine to France as soon as possible, to support the French government and farming sector in its fight against this devastating disease. ...
15 February 2008
French Start Bluetongue Vaccination ProgrammeFRANCE - The French government is to launch a bluetongue vaccination programme across the country and institute aid measures to help farmers affected by the disease....
30 January 2008
Fench Cattle Numbers Follow Downward TrendFRANCE - French cattle slaughtering figures for calendar 2007 finished the year at just over 5 million head, just over 40,000 head fewer than 2006, according to the French national agricultural statistics agency Agreste. It is not difficult to detect...
29 November 2007
Bluetongue Spreads in FranceFive new outbreaks of bluetongue disease have been reported in France....
Consume More or Import LessConsume more or import less is the dilemma facing the European beef industry, according to the French Institute of Animal Husbandry (Institut de l'Elevage)....
26 November 2007
French Cattle Breeders Call for FMD Compensation PlanFrench cattle and sheep farmers have hit out at the European authorities for failing to tackle the threat from a foot and mouth disease epidemic....
29 September 2007
France 'fighting bluetongue outbreak'FRANCE - France is fighting an outbreak of the livestock virus bluetongue disease, and there have been 2,246 cases, the French Agriculture Ministry said....
21 September 2007
New outbreaks of Bluetongue sheep virus in France, restricted zone widenedPARIS - The Bluetongue virus, which primarily affects sheep, is spreading across France with a total of 36 recorded cases, and the area in which the movement of live ruminants is restricted has been extended to cover 17 regional departments, announced...
05 August 2007
France takes preventive measures over foot-and-mouth diseaseFRANCE - The French Ministry of Agriculture announced a series of precautionary measures Saturday to prevent the foot-and-mouth disease from entering the country after reports of an outbreak in England were confirmed reports Xinhua....
22 January 2007
OIE update on Bluetongue In FranceFRANCE - The OIE have released update No 4 on Bluetongue in France...
20 September 2006
Mad-cow protein is degraded by soilFRANCE - The rogue prion protein that causes mad-cow disease is degraded by prolonged exposure to the soil, according to French research that may close off a path of exploration as to why cattle still fall sick with this disorder. Scientists are eager...
18 September 2006
Case of mad cow disease found in FranceFRANCE - A cow in central France has tested positive for mad cow disease, the country's fifth detected case this year, local authorities said. The 12-year old dairy cow from the central-eastern Bourgogne region was put down in August after developing...
25 July 2005
New case of mad cow disease detected in FranceFRANCE - One new case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy(BSE), was announced Friday in central France. The infected cow is a Charolais, born in 1995 in a herd of the French Vienne department. It is the eighth BSE cases detected...
06 April 2005
France announces two more cases of human mad-cow diseaseFRANCE - A French government health watchdog announced Tuesday that two more people have been diagnosed with the human form of mad-cow disease bringing the national tally to 11. In an attempt to preempt any public concern over the issue, the Institute...
02 February 2005
EU food agency to explore 'mad goat' riskFRANCE - Current science finds no link between goat meat and meat product consumption and variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD). But a group of experts calls for new research, to fully understand the risk this meat may pose to the food chain, and...
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