For the first time since 2006, Newcastle disease has reemerged in Brazil, prompting swift action from agricultural and health authorities to prevent a potential outbreak. This highly contagious viral disease, which primarily affects birds, has historically had severe consequences...
Jarrett Foods, a provider of custom poultry processing solutions, has begun operations at its newly renovated and expanded headquarters.
"We are excited that our new poultry processing facility is operational," Jarrett Foods CEO Heath Jarrett says. "We look forward to...
Adam Banaszak has joined NOVUS as Director of Global Channel Management. In this new role, he’s responsible for solidifying the leader in intelligent nutrition as the top choice for distributors of animal nutrition solutions.
“For the past few years, the...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) announced on Wednesday that it has temporarily banned imports of domestic and wild birds and poultry products from Minnesota, United States due to an ongoing outbreak of the High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1...
As the investigation continues into recent avian flu infections in as many as five workers who culled Colorado poultry, officials today said that industrial fans in poultry barns where temperatures exceeded 104°F could have spread the virus through windblown...
A recent study has revealed that the majority of salmonella outbreaks linked to poultry are caused by a small number of specific strains. Despite there being over 2,600 different types of salmonella bacteria, researchers found that only three strains...
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook is an annual report produced jointly by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This comprehensive report provides a ten-year forward-looking assessment of...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Philippines.
The problem was discovered when FSIS was performing routine surveillance...
A UK poultry farmer has been fined £50,000 after pleading guilty to falsifying Salmonella testing certificates.
More specifically, after prosecution by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), Stuart Perkins of SG Perkins Ltd. from Radstock, England was found guilty of several...
The 2024 PSA Annual Meeting, organized by the Poultry Science Association (PSA), promises to be a pivotal event for poultry scientists worldwide. Scheduled from July 15th to 18th at The Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, this conference brings...
