Regulations Coming to Control Salmonella in Turkeys
Directives and regulations from the EU have been driving to control zoonotic infections in livestock and in particular poultry as part of the improved food hygiene legislation, writes ThePoultrySite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

UK Poultry Disease Quarterly Surveillance Report (to December 2007)
By Veterinary Laboratories Agency - This report monitors trends in the major endemic poultry diseases and utilises the farmfile and VIDA (Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) databases. The report is compiled using disease data gathered by the network...

US Poultry Outlook Report - March 2008
By U.S.D.A, Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the March 2008: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report.

Shocking Results on Chicken
By Sharon Omahen, University of Georgia. Water is one of the world’s most precious resources. But if you combine it with salt and an electrical charge, it becomes one of the strongest disinfectants, too.

Public Health Risk-Based Inspection System for Processing and Slaughter
By the USDA, FSIS. The US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing a Public Health Risk-Based Inspection System (PHRBIS) for all processing and slaughter establishments.

Pest and Disease Occurences - Update on the European Animal Situation
By USDA FAS GAIN Files. Foot and Mouth Disease, Bluetongue and Avian Influenza have developed beyond expectations in 2007. The impact on markets has, however, been limited to mostly smaller, temporarily intra-EU disruptions. These disease outbreaks...

Zoonotic Infections in Europe: Trends and Figures
By J Denny of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden, F Boelaert of European Food Safety Agency (EFSA), Parma, Italy, B Borck of EFSA’s Zoonoses Collaboration Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark, OE Heuer of EFSA’s Zoonoses...

Elevated Risk of Carrying Gentamicin-Resistant Escherichia coli among U.S. Poultry Workers
By Lance B. Price, Jay P. Graham, Leila G. Lackey, Amira Roess, Rocio Vailes, and Ellen Silbergeld researchers at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Antimicrobial use in food-animal production is...

Use of sentinel chickens to evaluate the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection procedures in noncommercial poultry operations infected with exotic Newcastle disease virus
By Brian J. McCluskey,¹ Brandy Burgess, James Glover, Hailu Kinde, Sharon Hietala. The use of sentinel chickens in establishing the negative status of commercial poultry flocks depopulated due to exotic Newcastle disease (END) is considered...

Antibiotic Feed Additives: Politics And Science
By Chris Harris, ThePoultrySite Senior Editor. The debate regarding the use of antibiotic feed additives in food-producing animals has intensified in recent years according to Hector Cervantes Manager of Poultry Technical Services at Phibro Animal He...

H5N1 in Wild and Domestic Birds in Europe
By H Needham on behalf of the Influenza Project Team*, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance. Since the emergence of A/H5N1 in the winter of 2005-2006 at the border of the European Union (EU), including human cases in Turkey,...

External Parasites of Poultry
By P. E. Kaufman, P. G. Koehler and J. F. Butler - University of Florida, IFAS Extension. Arthropods are important pests of poultry in Florida, especially where proper management practices are not implemented.

Campylobacter in Poultry Risk Management Strategy 2007-2010
By the New Zealand Food safety Authority.

Backyard Flock Tip: Bio-Security and Beyond
By Nicholas M. Dale, Extension Poultry Scientist, University of Georgia, Cooperative Extension Service

Understanding and Control of House Sparrows
By Frank T. Jones, Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas