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By Paul Tolnai
Food safety, traceability, and supplier management systems are key to building resilience as the risk of outbreak, supply shortages and rising cost threaten poultry product producers.
For the Canadian poultry industry, reports of the avian influenza outbreak reaching farms in Newfoundland and Labrador in
Continue Reading Canadian food processors brace for the impact of avian influenza
The highly pathogenic avian flu is costing the United States so much that Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is kept on the ready to pour more money into the fight.
The Secretary is authorized to tap the cash at the Commodity Credit Corporation to fund USDA’s avian flu flight, which
Continue Reading Avian flu in 35 states requires a costly response
A Colorado inmate who was working to combat avian flu in commercial poultry has himself tested positive for the bird flu virus. The man, who was under 40 years of age, was involved in the culling (depopulating) of poultry with presumptive H5N1 bird flu when he tested positive for the
Continue Reading A recovery is reported in Colorado for nation’s first human illness from bird flu
Continue Reading Avian flu outbreaks in U.S. top previous record
