GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture Tyler Harper on July 10 issued his assist to a latest federal, bipartisan Congressional effort that seeks to induce USDA to petition the World Group for Animal Well being (WOAH) to concern a revision to the definition of “poultry.”
With this 12 months’s outbreaks of extremely pathogenic avian influenza affecting wild birds, non-commercial birds, business birds, dairy cattle, and at the very least 4 individuals, this effort notes that the present definition doesn’t work for all of the segments and in order that infections don’t have an effect on worldwide commerce a brand new definition is required. For instance. . .