Friday, April 10, 2026

Poultry Today

Iowa Egg Council and Fareway donate eggs to food banks

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Egg Council and Fareway Stores Inc., have teamed up to deliver a full truckload of eggs to the...

Weather radar helps researchers track bird flu

By Pam Kan-Rice Special to Poultry Times DAVIS, Calif. — The risk of bird flu transmission is higher in the fall due to the increased number...

Vilsack joins Dairy Export Council as president, CEO

ARLINGTON, Va. — Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will join the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) as president and CEO, effective Feb. 1,...

USDA’s One Health achieves multiple wins in the battle against antibiotics

By Katie Keiger Poultry Times Staff kkeiger@poultrytimes.com GAINESVILLE, Ga. ‑ The USDA is the leading authority on all things agriculture in the U.S. including monitoring antibiotics in...

Chicken product recalled due to misbranding, undeclared allergens

WASHINGTON — Perfect Fit Meals LLC in Houston, Texas, is recalling approximately 3,546 pounds of chicken breast product due to misbranding and undeclared allergens,...

NCC calls for research on chicken growth rates

WASHINGTON — The National Chicken Council urges consumers, the foodservice and retail industries, and non-governmental organizations to invest in studying the impact in the...

Sanderson Farms opens new N.C. deboning facility

LAUREL, Miss. — Sanderson Farms has begun operations in its new, $155 million, 180,000-square-foot big bird deboning facility in St. Pauls, N.C. The new facility, the...

Chicken tenders recalled for foriegn matter, misbranding

WASHINGTON — Schreiber Processing Corp.  of Maspeth, N.Y., is recalling approximately 2,330 pounds of chicken tender products that may be contaminated with plastic and...

AI detected in wild mallard duck in Montana

WASHINGTON — USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has detected the presence of Eurasian/North American reassortant H5N2 avian influenza in a wild...

H7N9 activity intensifies in China with 16 more cases

MINNEAPOLIS — The number of new human H7N9 avian flu cases in China has increased sharply, with 16 reported, including 15 on the mainland...

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