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McDonald’s to phase out human antibiotics from U.S. chicken supply

By Lisa Baertlein, P.J. Huffstutter March 4, 2015

Reuters — McDonald’s U.S. restaurants will gradually stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections, the most aggressive step by a major food company to change chicken producers’ practices in the fight against dangerous “superbugs.” The world’s biggest restaurant chain announced on Wednesday that within two years, McDonald’s USA will only buy […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Killers sought in deaths of 300,000 chickens in South Carolina

By Harriet McLeod, GFM Network News March 4, 2015

Charleston | Reuters –– Revenge may be the motive for the killings in South Carolina of more than 300,000 commercial chickens worth about $1.7 million over the past two weeks, authorities said Monday. Birds have been found dead of unnatural causes in 16 chicken houses at six farms that grow chickens for Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., […] Read more

CFIA’s now-revised “restricted” zone for avian flu in the Fraser Valley is in orange; “infected” zones are in red. (Inspection.gc.ca)

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CFIA shrinks restricted zone in B.C. avian flu outbreak

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 19, 2015

Quarantines ending on poultry and egg farms in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have allowed federal officials to slightly pull back their zone coverage against the spread of avian flu. As of last Thursday (Feb. 12), federal quarantines are lifted on five of the 11 commercial broiler, turkey and egg farms that were confirmed in December to be […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Love to eat eggs? U.S. panel now says they’re not a health risk

By yasmeen-abutaleb February 19, 2015

New York | Reuters — Egg and red meat lovers may find reason to rejoice in a decision by a U.S. advisory health panel to remove warnings about dietary cholesterol, saying that there is no link to dangerous levels of blood cholesterol that cause disease. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee until now had recommended that […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

By Dave Bedard February 7, 2015

About 95 layer hens on a “non-commercial” farm near Chilliwack are the Fraser Valley’s latest cases of avian influenza, but not of the same strain seen at 12 other farms in December. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Saturday announced a quarantine on the Chilliwack farm after confirming, effective Feb. 2, that table egg-laying birds […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

New Washington poultry quarantine set up near B.C. border

By P.J. Huffstutter February 3, 2015

Reuters — The state of Washington said Tuesday it has established a third poultry quarantine zone just outside British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, after state officials discovered a flock of about 100 birds infected with an avian influenza virus. The Washington State Department of Agriculture adopted an emergency rule on Sunday to establish the new quarantine […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Husband of B.C. woman with H7N9 also infected

By Reuters January 30, 2015

Toronto | Reuters –– The husband of a woman who tested positive for the H7N9 avian flu virus earlier this week was also infected, likely from a common source during their visit to China, federal and provincial officials confirmed Friday. The couple, residents of British Columbia, exhibited symptoms one day apart and likely did not […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Canada expands blocks on U.S. poultry, eggs

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 28, 2015

Canada’s avian flu-related ban on imports of poultry, birds and eggs from Washington and Oregon has been expanded to include the same products from California and Idaho. The ban was expanded after outbreaks of avian flu in poultry in the past week in both states, including a backyard flock of chickens in Idaho infected with […] Read more

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California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

By Theopolis Waters January 26, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– A California turkey farm has been quarantined after confirmation of the first case of an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza strain in the Pacific Northwest, and in a commercial flock, the U.S. government said. The news on Saturday came just weeks after China banned U.S. poultry after an […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

B.C. resident positive for H7N9 avian flu

By Julie Gordon January 26, 2015

Vancouver | Reuters –– A British Columbia resident has tested positive for the H7N9 avian flu virus in the first documented case of the infection in a human in North America, the federal government said Monday. The person had returned to Canada from China and is recovering from the illness in self-isolation, the Public Health […] Read more

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Poultry/Eggs

McDonald’s to phase out human antibiotics from U.S. chicken supply

Killers sought in deaths of 300,000 chickens in South Carolina

CFIA shrinks restricted zone in B.C. avian flu outbreak

Love to eat eggs? U.S. panel now says they’re not a health risk

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

New Washington poultry quarantine set up near B.C. border

Husband of B.C. woman with H7N9 also infected

Canada expands blocks on U.S. poultry, eggs

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

B.C. resident positive for H7N9 avian flu

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