SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. — Cobb-Vantress has become the first company in Brazil to receive certification for poultry compartmentalization for avian influenza and Newcastle disease from the country's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA).
The certification was confirmed at a ceremony at the MAPA headquarters in Brasilia attended by Blairo Maggi, Brazilian minister of agriculture, and Francisco Turra, president of the Brazilian Association of Poultry Producers (ABPA), together with Monique Eloit, director general of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Poultry compartmentalization is based on MAPA's Normative Ruling No. 21 established in partnership with the ABPA. . .