The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned that bird flu is spreading ‘rapidly’ across Europe. What impact will this have on European poultry processors and consumers?
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned a number of live bird and poultry product imports from Croatia, following an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
Europe’s struggle with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HAPI) has seen the disease breach Belgium, a country free from bird flu outbreaks for seven years.
Iraq’s inability to tackle the cause of bird flu means the deadly virus is likely to spread across neighbouring countries, according to an expert on animal diseases.
Reported cases of avian influenza in the US have now reached 156 in the past six months, making the current situation the most extensive outbreak of the disease ever reported in the country.
The outbreaks of bird flu in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands are hampering efforts to create export markets in mainland China for these countries’ poultry and poultry products.
The UK poultry processor at the centre of the avian influenza
outbreak earlier this year will not face criminal prosecution, the
national food regulator has confirmed.
A single test for about 600 deadly viruses speeds up the process of
spotting a food-related disease outbreak -- such as bird flu -- in
hours rather than days.
European agriculture ministers have approved a plan for the EU to
offer more compensation to poultry farmers affected by a falling
sales in the wake of bird flu.
The UK regulator responsible for testing for bird flu defended its
methods today after scientific experts raised the possibility that
they may be flawed.
Thailand's chicken processors say they will soon recover their
export sales, badly damaged by the bird flu crisis, by offering
their international customers premium, cooked products.
With bird flu creeping up on the EU, the bloc's members have been
jolted into a more active response to the danger, which not only
threatens human health, but also the poultry processing sector's
livelihood.
With the media and scientists touting the possibility that avian
flu could migrate to the EU from Russia, the chicken is facing
another round of bad publicity.
The Dutch government has ordered the culling of 600 ducks on a farm
after routine blood tests showed signs of antibodies to a mild
strain of bird flu. There are fears of a return of the virus that
devastated much of northern Europe's...
Experts in Asia are predicting that the bird flu outbreak is
threatening to evolve into a situation similar to that of the
recent SARS outbreak, as the disease appears to show no signs of
abating. Meanwhile in Europe strict measures...
Beneficial knock-on effects of the Avian Influenza and BSE crises
could soon be felt within Denmark's pork industry, according to
some industry experts. Denmark's Bacon and Meat Council believes
that after months of historically...