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The Covid outbreak has influenced the marketing of KFC. Photo: KFC
02-09-2020 | News

Kentucky Fried Chicken pauses “inappropriate” slogan

By definition farm blindness is when you see the situation on your own farm as the norm. Photo: Marcel Berendsen
02-09-2020 | Article

How to prevent farm blindness?

Standard cargo bay used to transport broilers in this study. Photo: Research journal, PLOS ONE
01-09-2020 | News

Effect of transport distance and climate on broilers

Over the past few weeks, more than 100,000 birds on 2 UK farms have been culled due to closures of processing plants because of Covid-19 outbreaks among factory workers. Photo: ANP/Vincent Jannink
31-08-2020 | News

Birds culled as UK forced to close plants due to Covid-19

Through better detection of Campylobacter, a better prevention strategy can be developed. Photo: Dick van Doorn
31-08-2020 | Article

New and fast detection of Campylobacter

Small scale farmers selling of birds in times of disease may increase the likelihood of widespread disease transmission. Photo: Henk Riswick
31-08-2020 | News

Backyard producers selling affects bird flu transmission

chicken that finishes being born
28-08-2020 | News

August Business Update: What’s new in the world of poultry?

Cramped conditions in some plants as well as in employees homes, spurred by the UK s drive for cheaply produced foods could be the reason for the rise in Covid infection rates. Photo: Ruud Ploeg
28-08-2020 | News

UK’s cheap food could be spreading Covid; WHO envoy warns

The increase in human campylobacter cases in Sweden is linked to the increase in diseases broiler flocks. Photo: Hans Prinsen
27-08-2020 | News

Campylobacter cases in humans rise in Sweden

More than 500 eggs per hen housed was once a dream, but now a reality. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten
26-08-2020 | News

SFR seminar on extended laying period in layers

Chicken products can flow freely into China, with the correct guarantees on paper that is. Photo: Poultry World
26-08-2020 | News

China accepts Argentinean “covid free” guarantee

Vice President at DSM Animal Nutrition and Health, Christie Chavis sees DSM taking a leadership role and wants to be a change agent . Photo: DSM
25-08-2020 | Interview

Christie Chavis, DSM Animal Nutrition and Health

Since the re-election of Belarus president Lukashenko the country is in turmoil, with the risk of trade disruptions. Photo: ANP
24-08-2020 | News

Protests in Belarus could disrupt poultry trade with Russia

Due to its affordability, household demand for chicken meat has grown - now comprising about 60% of household consumer s meat preference. Photo: Penn Communicatie
24-08-2020 | Article

World’s no. 1 egg consumer, favours chicken

A shipment of frozen chicken wings, imported from Brazil into the southern city of Shenzen, tested positive for the virus when it was sampled. Photo: Koos Groenewold
21-08-2020 | News

China: Traces of Covid-19 found in imported frozen food

Photo: Henk Riswick
21-08-2020 | Expert opinion

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