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Fighting Food Poisoning: Sweeping Poultry Changes Proposed
Officials hope testing chickens and turkeys before they enter the slaughterhouse will encourage farmers to adopt practices that reduce the bacterial infection on the bird before they reach the point of meat processing.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - October 15, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
USDA Proposes Sweeping Changes to Poultry Industry to Cut Food Poisoning
DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations.
Despite decades of efforts to try and reduce illnesses caused by salmonella in food, more than 1 million people are sickened every year and nearly a fourth of those cases come from turkey and chicken meat.
As it stands, consumers bear much of the responsibility for avoiding illness from raw poultry by handling it carefully in the kitchen&mdas...
Source: TIME: Health - October 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David Pitt/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health wire Source Type: news
Biggest EVER bird flu outbreak means 48MILLION chickens have now been culled across UK and Europe
The highly contagious virus - which experts fear could jump to humans and trigger another pandemic - usually dies out in the summer. Yet this year, avian influenza has persisted all-year round
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Free-range eggs’ in EU could be from birds housed all their lives indoors
Eggs from chickens kept indoors due to bird flu outbreaks could still be labelled free range, raising concerns among UK producersEggs produced in the EU could continue to be labelled as “free range”, even if the birds are not allowed outside, under new proposals.The European Commission has put forward plans for scrapping the time limit on the marketing of eggs as free range if chickens are forced to be housed to reduce the risk of outbreaks of bird flu.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 8, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Tom Levitt Tags: Bird flu Eggs European Union Environment World news Food Agriculture Science Health Society Source Type: news
‘We’re nervous.’ Deadly bird flu may be in North America to stay
When an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza spread across North America this spring, researchers hoped for a replay of what happened after a different avian flu variant arrived in the United States in December 2014. Although more than 50 million birds died or were destroyed in a matter of months, costing farmers more than $1.6 billion, the virus had essentially vanished by June 2015. Poultry outbreaks ended, wild birds stopped dying, and migratory waterfowl didn’t bring the virus back when they returned from their summer breeding grounds in Canada.
But this time is different. H5N1 infections in both w...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 23, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon
Not so long ago, Atlantic salmon was an abundant wild species. Born in the rivers of northeastern United States and Canada, after a couple years in freshwater they embarked on an epic migration, navigating 2,000 miles across the Atlantic to feed and mature off western Greenland. Millions of salmon travelled up to 60 miles a day, fending off predators and feeding on zooplankton and small fish. When the time came, instinct and the earth’s magnetic fields led these magnificent fish back to spawn in the precise rivers of their birth.
Today, wild salmon are an endangered species, gone from most rivers in the U.S. There ar...
Source: TIME: Health - July 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins Tags: Uncategorized freelance Sustainability Source Type: news
AI could improve welfare of farmed chickens by listening to their squawks
The technology correctly distinguished distress calls from other barn noises with 97% accuracyArtificial intelligence that could improve the welfare of farmed chickens by eavesdropping on their squawks could become available within five years, researchers say.The technology, which detects and quantifies distress calls made by chickens housed in huge indoor sheds, correctly distinguished distress calls from other barn noises with 97% accuracy, new research suggests. A similar approach could eventually be used to drive up welfare standards in other farmed animals.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 28, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Science correspondent Tags: Science Farm animals Environment Chicken Source Type: news
Bird flu is on the rise in the UK. Are chickens in the back garden to blame?
The risk to humans from the disease, spread by wild birds, is low but a record level of outbreaks this year has researchers worriedBird flu outbreaks rose nearly fivefold last year, creating an urgent need for research into preventing the spread of the disease, according to the head of a new consortium investigating the virus.The record of 26 outbreaks involving H5N1 in 2021 has been shattered, with 121 outbreaks involving the H5 serotype this year, according to Prof Ian Brown, head of virology at the government ’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha).Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 19, 2022 Category: Science Authors: James Tapper Tags: Bird flu Health Infectious diseases Medical research UK news Birds Society Environment Source Type: news
How cannabis-fed chickens may help cut Thai farmers ’ antibiotic use
Scientists observed fewer cases of avian bronchitis and superior meat after chickens given cannabisIt all began when Ong-ard Panyachatiraksa, a farm owner in the north of Thailand who is licensed to grow medicinal cannabis, was wondering what to do with the many excess leaves he had amassed. He asked: could his brood of chickens benefit from the leftovers?Academics at Chiang Mai University were also curious. Since last January they have studied 1,000 chickens at Ong-ard ’s Pethlanna organic farm, in Lampang, to see how the animals responded when cannabis was mixed into their feed or water.The results are promising and su...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 15, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok Tags: Thailand Cannabis Chicken Asia Pacific Food Antibiotics Environment Drugs Farming Farm animals World news Society Science Source Type: news
CDC: Backyard Chickens, Ducks, Poultry Linked To Salmonella Outbreak, 27 Hospitalized, One Dead
A Salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry affecting at least 38 states? Have you seen this chick flick before?
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 11, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science business pharma Source Type: news
Concern grows that human monkeypox outbreak will establish virus in animals outside Africa
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Eleven days after being bitten by one of her pet prairie dogs, a 3-year-old girl in Wisconsin on 24 May 2003 became the first person outside of Africa to be diagnosed with monkeypox. Two months later, her parents and 69 other people in the United States had suspected or confirmed cases of this disease, which is caused by a relative of the much deadlier smallpox virus. The monkeypox virus is endemic in parts of Africa, and rodents imported from Ghana had apparently infected captive prairie dogs, North...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 8, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Domesticated Chickens Were Initially Friends, Not Food
Analyses of bones found across the world suggest that the birds entered human settlements more recently than previously thought. But they don’t seem to have immediately made their way to the...
Source: The Scientist - June 7, 2022 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Chickens were first tempted down from trees by rice, research suggests
Close human contact only started about 3,500 years ago and birds were initially venerated, find archaeologistsChickens were originally tempted down from the trees and into domestication by rice, according to research.Chicken is one of the most popular foods in the world today,with more than one billion birds slaughtered annually in the UK alone. But researchers at the University of Exeter, the University of Oxford and Cardiff University say in a new study that the birds are actually a relatively new addition to our farms.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 6, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Helena Horton Environment reporter Tags: Archaeology Animals Chicken Farm animals UK news Science World news Food Universities Source Type: news
Beautician, 28, reveals NHS medics dismissed tell-tale lump in her neck as being caused by a cold
Paris Wells noticed the unusual bump this March and had it checked out. She went to an externally-run urgent care centre, at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington, Kent.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Give Edible Insects a Chance as an Alternative High-Quality Protein Source, say Scientists
A variety of insect-based delicacies. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people around the world eat insects as part of their regular diet. Encouraging the eating of insects could have health and climate change benefits. Credit: icipeBy Joyce ChimbiNairobi, May 6 2022 (IPS) Growing up in Samoya Village of Bungoma County in the Western part of Kenya, Elvis Wanjala has fond childhood memories of the rainy season, chasing and catching black-bellied winged termites in the rain.
“The termites would also come inside the house, attracted by the light late in the evening. My mother would sun-dry the termites and pan-fry them. We w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa Biodiversity Climate Action Climate Change Environment Featured Food and Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Headlines Health Natural Resources Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Burea Source Type: news
