{"id":9824,"date":"2016-04-12T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2016\/04\/12\/fvgs-battle-against-sea-lice\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:56:00","slug":"fvgs-battle-against-sea-lice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/fvgs-battle-against-sea-lice\/","title":{"rendered":"FVG\u2019s battle against sea lice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news comes after the company\u2019s close cooperation and work with the US Food and Drug Authority (FDA) over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalmon farmers in Norway, Chile, Canada, Faroe Islands, UK and Ireland now have the freedom to develop robust a treatment and management plan for all of their facilities,\u201d said John Marshall, FVG\u2019s technical director.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAs well as export salmon treated with Salmosa, Salmosa Vet and Byelice (Benchmark\u2019s sea lice treatments) with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a major step forward for Atlantic Salmon producers, with sea lice becoming an increasing welfare issue and costing the industry more than US$500m per year.<\/p>\n<p>Global production of farmed Atlantic salmon is approximately two million tonnes, and of this volume more than 10% is exported to the US market annually.<\/p>\n<p>Producers can now select from stock treated with any of the current Benchmark sea lice products available on the market today for export to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fish Vet Group (FVG) has announced that it has successfully obtained an Import Tolerance for azamethiphos, the active ingredient in Benchmark\u2019s sea lice treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}