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NEW data from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will help guide US animal health officials in ensuring livestock producers use antimicrobials in a more judicious way, says this federal government agency.

The data, which was released last month (May 2019), gives the latest benchmark for swine sites and cattle rearers on antimicrobial use in US feedlots and swine operations.…

An assessment on fraud and corruption in four UK sectors has found organisations surveyed understood the risks of internal fraud less comprehensively than threats by outsiders in financial services, the National Health Service (NHS) and local government. By contrast, the UK construction industry appreciated the risk of insider fraud and corruption as well as that posed by outside criminals. …

MONGOLIA’S grassland ecology has always lent itself to livestock and hence milk production, so it is no surprise that the development of a dairy industry has been a priority for its government and international institutions.

A five-year loan worth USD12 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development via Mongolia’s XacBank announced in February (2019) is just one such related initiative.…

PROMISING a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, energy cost-savings, sustainable manure management and a diversified revenue stream, the number of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants producing renewable biogas on dairy farms is growing globally. When upgraded to natural gas it can be sold to local utilities companies and used as transportation fuel as well as generate on-farm combined heat and power (CHP) – this biogas can be an important source of income.…

THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization (ISO) has launched a series of standards designed to help the cocoa industry ensure its products are both sustainably harvested and processed, but also traceable across their supply chains. Its ISO 34101 series is designed to promote good environmental and labour practices in a sector that involves sophisticated confectionery companies, global commodity traders and small farmers, often in poor countries, notably in west Africa.…

THE PERSONAL care product sector has an increasingly complex and global supply chain and as a result, international technical standards are growing in utility and importance. Where suppliers and retailers follow and require the use of international standards to guide their operations and products, there will be fewer nasty surprises, in orders and purchases.…

THE BALTIC States, being European Union (EU) member states adjacent to Russia and Belarus have been exploited by Russian criminals as a gateway for their illicit funds into the EU and beyond.

This is despite that as EU member states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania must implement EU anti-money laundering and anti-terror finance legislation.…

Trinidad & Tobago has a problem regarding tax transparency, one that its financial sector and government want to go away. The Caribbean twin-island state remains the only country that is a member of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Global Forum that is listed as totally non-compliant with its rules – see https://www.oecd.org/tax/transparency/exchange-of-information-on-request/ratings/.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has hailed a 272% increase in liquified natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States to the European Union (EU) since a landmark meeting last July (2018) between President Donald Trump and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

Releasing trade data at a High-Level Business-to-Business Energy Forum staged in Brussels, where LNG executives from Europe and America discussed increasing this trade, the Commission said EU imports of US LNG in March hit a record 1.4 billion cubic metres.…

The US paint and coatings industry is set to experience pain as “the spectre of significantly reduced profits looms large” because of the ongoing trade war over tariffs with China, a trade think-tank has warned.

And American industry representatives have indicated job losses and “negative financial impacts” could result from the tariffs increasing the cost of chemicals and other raw materials imported by the sector.…