Soy Processing Must Be Treated as a Piglet-Health Control Point
A study published on 8 September in the *Journal of Animal Science* puts trypsin inhibitors firmly in the spotlight of nursery-pig nutrition. It examines how different levels of these antinutritional compounds in diets affect performance, diarrhoea, intestinal inflammatory responses, oxidative stress, mucosal morphology, barrier integrity and hindgut fermentation. Its practical relevance goes beyond a single formulation: inhibitor activity is a raw-material quality variable that can differ among soybean batches and processing conditions.
Slaughter Counts and Carcass Weights Need to Be Read Together
Defra’s statistical update of 10 September adds August 2026 data on cattle, sheep and pig slaughter in the United Kingdom. The information set brings together numbers of animals slaughtered for human consumption, average dressed carcass weights and volumes of meat produced. In addition, the quarterly supplies release combines production, trade and domestic availability for beef and veal, sheep meat, pig meat and poultry.
The University of Southern Denmark is presenting a poster at EuroSense 2026 in Oslo, held from 8 to 11 September, on juiciness in plant-based meat alternatives during mastication. The work explicitly addresses the temporal dimension of texture: what matters is not only a person’s final judgement, but when moisture release, structure, resistance and breakdown are perceived during a bite.
Veal’s Regional Value Is Decided Increasingly in Foodservice
A new analysis by *Fleisch & Co* draws attention to a gap between culinary identity and raw-material origin in Austrian foodservice. According to the cited sector data, only around one in five veal schnitzels eaten away from home is prepared with Austrian veal. At the same time, the RollAMA 2025 survey highlights the weight of foodservice: 39% of respondents eat breaded schnitzel frequently or exclusively away from home.
One Health Turns Interfaces into the Real Risk Management Task
The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) called on 4 September, at the 9th World One Health Congress in Lisbon, for a move from declaration to implementation of One Health. Its argument directly affects the meat chain: avian influenza, antimicrobial resistance, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss do not respect the borders between animal health, public health, environment, trade and food control.
