Artikkeli
18.1.2023
FIFUR has been informed that five fur farms in Finland allegedly had been invaded and secretly photographed in the course of 2022. FIFUR has received a video clip via AFP news agency, and FIFUR has studied the content of the clip.
Artikkeli
2.6.2022
The seminar on 10 May 2022 provided an interesting overview of the current sustainability projects in the fur industry and a look at the future of fur farming.
Artikkeli
22.12.2021
The first FIFUR member farmers have started vaccinations against SARS-Cov2-coronavirus on Finnish farmed mink stock on their farms.
Artikkeli
30.9.2021
“The Finnish fur industry will be the first operator in EU to vaccinate animals against corona”, says FIFUR’s CEO Marja Tiura
The Finnish Food Authority, under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which supervises veterinary activities in Finland, has granted a conditional usage permit under the Medicines Act for a mink coronavirus vaccine developed in a joint project between FIFUR and a group of researchers at the University of Helsinki.
Artikkeli
12.1.2021
The Finnish Fur Breeders' Association FIFUR and researchers at the University of Helsinki are developing a corona vaccine for mink and Finnraccoon. The goal is to have a vaccine that protects farm animals against covid-19 as soon as possible for widespread use and distribution.

Artikkeli
5.11.2020
No coronavirus infections have been detected in Finnish fur animals and the situation on the farms is calm. The Finnish Fur Breeders' Association FIFUR and its member companies have been combating the spread of coronavirus to Finnish fur farms since the spring of 2020. Systematic preparedness and increased protection measures will continue on farms and in all activities in the fur branch. The good co-operation between Finland's fur industry and the authorities in the fight against coronavirus infections also continues.

Artikkeli
29.7.2020
Invaders have broken into several fur farms in June-July in Finland and the invaders have posed a risk of spreading infectious diseases, including the Covid-19-virus, to both animals and farm workers.

Artikkeli
19.12.2019
Fox pelts certified in accordance with the European WelFur standard will be on offer for the first time during the international fur auction at Saga Furs in Helsinki, Finland, 19-20 December 2019. WelFur is the biggest and most comprehensive animal welfare programme ever to be implemented across an entire continent, which count 2,918 European mink and fox farms currently housing 35 million animals.
Artikkeli
28.5.2019
Finnish Fur Breeders’ Association’s supplementary business name PROFUR, that is used in its communications and logo, will be changed to FIFUR in August 2019. Association’s actual business name remains the same. New supplementary business name is a part of Association’s campaign to lift the profile of Finnish fur farming.
Artikkeli
21.3.2019
Investigators hired by the International Fur Federation (IFF) have unearthed evidence that a video from 2009 showing the torture of a fur animal was ordered and paid by animal rights activists.