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Poultry Today

Poultry workers’ injury, illness rate remains at all-time low

TUCKER, Ga. — The incidence of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in the poultry sector, which includes slaughter and processing, remains at an all-time...

Metagenomics offers insight into poultry disease

By Sandra Avant Special to Poultry Times BELTSVILLE, Md. — Less than ten years ago, the world marveled at the completion of the human genome project,...

Biosecurity for poultry farms

By Katie Keiger Poultry Times staff Kkeiger@poultrytimes.com GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Ensuring the health of hundreds or thousands of chickens can be overwhelming, but like any large task...

National Steak and Poultry recalls almost 2M pounds of ready-to-eat chicken

WASHINGTON — National Steak and Poultry, an Owasso, Okla., company, is recalling approximately 1,976,089 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products due to adulteration because of...

Mike Popowycz installed as NCC chairman

WASHINGTON — Mike Popowycz, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Case Foods, Troutman, N.C., was installed as 2016-2017 chairman of the National Chicken...

Poultry exports to increase in 2016 and 2017

WASHINGTON — USDA forecasts for net exports (exports minus imports) of poultry and red meat in 2016 and 2017 show progressive increases, largely due...

Eggs associated with reduced risk of stroke

Egg Nutrition Center PARK RIDGE, Ill. — On the heels of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans that placed no daily limit on dietary cholesterol...

Trade agreements matter to U.S. agriculture

By Stewart Truelsen Special to Poultry Times WASHINGTON — In this wild and wooly election year international trade agreements, especially the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership, have come under...

Multistate salmonella outbreak linked to backyard flocks

ATLANTA —  The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has reported that this year's multistate outbreak of salmonella was linked to contact with live...

End of the road for antibiotics, potential futures opening up

By Katie Keiger Poultry Times staff Kkeiger@poultrytimes.com GAINESVILLE, Ga. — It is possible to overcome some bacterial infections without antibiotics, but it is challenging. In poultry farms,...

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