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One of the most important challenges humankind faces today is the expected increase in population size, with projections—supported by the United Nations—that the world population will reach the 9 billion mark by the year 2050. Population growth will consequently lead to an unprecedented increase in food demand. Although all food animal industries will continue to work to prepare and adapt to satisfy that demand, consensus is that aquaculture will play a significant role in the future of food security.

Hormel Food Corporation, based in Austin, Minnesota, is recalling approximately 228,614 pounds of Spam because of possible contamination with metal.

Dr. Fernando Mardones will join CAHFS for the next event in the Hueston Speaker Series on Thursday May 3, with a talk titled "Diseases and health management in aquaculture production: challenges in the salmon and shrimp industries."

ProgRESSVet (Programa Regional de Educación Sistemática de Servicios Veterinarios), the online education program of CAHFS and CEBASEV (Centro Buenos Aires para la Capacitación de los Servicios Veterinarios), launched its 2018 program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 8-9, 2018. The program brings together a new cohort of 11 participants from Veterinary Services of the Latin American region, from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Minnesota’s Attorney General had been seeking $5 billion in damages from 3M to help clean up the company’s disposal of industrial chemicals in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area over the past 40 years.

The inaugural ProgRESSVet (Programa Regional de Educación Sistemática de Servicios Veterinarios) cohort gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 18-19 to mark the conclusion of the program’s first year. The program is an online education offering aiming to increase the capacity of veterinary services in Latin America.

On December 1, CAHFS Director Andres Perez gave the keynote address in the 9th Conference on Research in Salmonculture (IX Jornadas de Investigación en Salmonicultura), which took place in Puerto Varas, Chile. Dr. Perez shared two lectures on the topic of Fish Health, and was the only speaker from an organization outside Chile. The conference united under the theme of “Science for a Better Industry.”

CAHFS is proud to announce the launch of the Dr. Will Hueston Speaker Series.

CAHFS-affiliated faculty Dr. Karin Hamilton and VPHPM resident Dr. Jacob DeVries have been in Kosovo this month leading a workshop "From the Farm to Table - Poulty Production" with the University of Prishtina. Various University of Minnesota (UMN) departments have entered this partnership project with World Learning in order to work with the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary at University of Prishtina, Kosovo (FAV UP) with the primary goals to help develop, strengthen, and sustain a modern academic program for agriculture, food systems and veterinary education.