Books in the Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine series

Reduction of pre-slaughter stress and improvement in carcass and meat quality is becoming increasingly important in the international meat trade. This results in particular from growing consumer concern about the welfare of meat animals during the pre-slaughter period and from specific meat packaging and marketing requirements.

A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Pathology, held at Tubingen, F.R.G., September 21-24, 1982

A Seminar in the CEC Agricultural Research Programme, held in Brussels, June 13-14, 1985. Sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General of Agriculture, Coordination of Agricultural Research

This workshop was organized and convened in an attempt to strengthen the basic science of the ruminant stomach, as it applies to an economically important group of mammals.

Today PHF has been diagnosed, at least serologically, practically across the entire United States, in some provinces of Canada, and reports are beginning to trickle in of its occurrence in European countries.

This publication contains the proceedings of a seminar held in Abano Terme, Italy on November 13 - 17, 1978, under the auspices of the Commission of the European Communities, as part of the EEC programme of co-ordination of research on improvement of beef production.

A Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Beef Production held at Freising, Federal Republic of Germany, May 4--6, 1977

That knowledge should lead to the development of interpretative and hopefully predictive theories which in turn will allow us to meet the recommendations of Article 3 of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes: 'that animals shall be housed, provided with food.

Approximately five years have elapsed since the Conference on "Tick-borne Diseases and their Vectors" (Wilde, 1978, University of Edinburgh) was held at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh.

Symposium on the Diagnosis of Mycotoxicoses of Importance in the US and Japan, sponsored by US-Japan Cooperative Program on Development and Utilization of Natural Resources Joint Panel on Toxic Microorganism, and the National Animal Disease Center USDA, ARS, held at Ames, Iowa, Oct. 11-13, 1984

An Animal Pathology Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Agricultural Research held at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-6 February, 1980

The transport of farm livestock was the subject of the seminar held from 7 - 8 July 1981 at the Commission of the European Communities (CECl, Directorate General for Agriculture, Brussels as part of the work of the Division Coordinating Agricultural Research.

A Seminar in the Community Programme for the Coordination of Agricultural Research, held in Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 November 1988. Sponsored by the Commission of European Communities, Directorate-General for Agriculture, Coordination of Agricultural Research

Reduction of pre-slaughter stress and improvement in carcass and meat quality is becoming increasingly important in the international meat trade. This results in particular from growing consumer concern about the welfare of meat animals during the pre-slaughter period and from specific meat packaging and marketing requirements.

Approximately five years have elapsed since the Conference on "Tick-borne Diseases and their Vectors" (Wilde, 1978, University of Edinburgh) was held at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh.

In South America, principal sites for raising cattle are shifting to the savannah lands because the more fertile soils are being used for crop produc tion, however, in the savannahs also, disease remains the most powerful deterrent in implementing the cattle industry.

A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Beef Production held at Castleknock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, April 13-15, 1981

The contents of the symposia on energy metabolism of farm animals show this and they have initially focussed on feed evaluation and later on com parative aspects of energy metabolism. I n model studies on energy metabolism researchers have recognized the interaction between the environment and the energy requirements of animals.

In South America, principal sites for raising cattle are shifting to the savannah lands because the more fertile soils are being used for crop produc- tion, however, in the savannahs also, disease remains the most powerful deterrent in implementing the cattle industry.