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Recent reviews have included:

• Growth promoter alternatives after the ban on antibiotics
• Salmonella control in pork: effect of animal nutrition and feeding
• The welfare of pigs during transport and slaughter
• Gastric ulcers
• Current status of quantitative trait locus mapping in pigs
• Report on the VIII Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association, Adelaide, Australia, 25-28 November 2001

Internet Access

The abstracts are also available online. Each week Pig News and Information delivers all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books on the latest pig research. On average over 3,500 records are added to the database each year.

Created and indexed by subject specialists the database provides access to these abstracts alongside comprehensive indexing, classification codes, taxonomies, thesauri and other data mining functionalities.

The database covers:

• Production & management
• Behaviour & welfare
• Physiology, biochemistry & anatomy
• Health & disease
• Environmental aspects of production, including waste management
• Pigs in biomedical research
• Books, reports and conferences