On June 9, 2015, just before 12:30am, Portage la Prairie RCMP received a report of medication stolen from a crash cart at the Portage General Hospital.
Maple Leaf Consumer Foods is encouraging pork producers who ship hogs to its processing plants to consider the adoption of needle-free technology for the administration of vaccines and medications to swine.
Manitoba Pork Council reports approximately one quarter of the province’s pork producers have switched from needles and syringes to needle free administration of medications and vaccines.
A newly released software package will help swine and poultry producers optimize the use of soluble nutritional and antibiotic supplements.
Manitoba Pork Council expects a study planned for the new year to provide the province’s pork producers greater insight into the value of needleless injection.
A research study planned for the new year will provide producers the information they’ll need to decide whether to adopt new needleless injection technology for administering medications to swine.
