The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have warned that avian influenza’s “rapid spread” through Europe threatens the poultry sectors in low-resourced countries, and have urged...
The UK turkey producer at the centre of an avian influenza outbreak
earlier this year is to be compensated nearly £600,000 (€885,000)
despite receiving criticism in an official report published
yesterday.
The Food Standards Agency is investigating whether poultry from a
Bernard Matthews' production
site infected with the avian influenza virus entered the UK food
chain and is being sold in stores.
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.
Countries affected by the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 should
not restock their flocks too quickly to avoid the disease flaring
up again, FAO warned today. But two months after the outbreak of
the epidemic some countries are...
