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30 April 2008

Bluetongue Vaccine Release Outlines Strength of Intervet/SPAH Combination
NETHERLANDS - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has released the first batch of Bovilis BTV8 vaccine against bluetongue to supply in Northern Europe. ...

21 April 2008

Dairy Cooperatives to Merge
NETHERLANDS - Two large dairy co-operatives in the Netherlands, Campina and Friesland Foods, have announced their intention to merge....

28 February 2008

Dutch Attack Bluetongue Finance Package
The Dutch Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg has hit out at the proposed financing of the European vaccination programme to fight bluetongue. ...

17 January 2008

Dutch Minister Calls for Sustainable Production
Dutch Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg has called for a 15 year sustainable cattle breeding programme....

16 January 2008

Intervet Has Developed Bluetongue Vaccine
THE NETHERLANDS – Animal health company Intervet International bv, part of Schering-Plough Corporation, has developed a vaccine against Bluetongue serotype 8, for sheep and cattle. The vaccine has been taken into production now. Intervet is aiming to...

03 July 2007

Intervet opens new FMD vaccine facility
BOXMEER – Today, Intervet, largest vaccine producer world wide, opens a new formulation and filling unit at the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine factory in Cologne, Germany. With this factory Intervet substantially strengthens its worldwide position...

23 April 2007

Dutch Report Mad Cow Case
NETHERLANDS - A seven-year-old cow has tested positive for mad cow disease, the first case this year and the 83rd since 1997 in the Netherlands, the Dutch Agriculture Ministry said. ...

13 March 2007

Intervet bought by Schering-Plough
NETHERLANDS - American based company Schering-Plough has announced it is to acquire the Dutch veterinary company Intervet as part of its buy out of Organon BioSciences, the pharmaceutical division of chemical company Akzo Nobel....