Berlin, 31. March 2017. Avian flu is in retreat in many parts of Germany. "Gradually, the situation seems to relax, we also see the goose-holder with great relief," says Lorenz Eskildsen, chairman of the Federal Association of Farming Goose husbandry e. V ...
Berlin, 30. March 2017. The German poultry industry reacts with surprise and irritation to the invitation of its Lower Saxony counterpart Christian Meyer, addressed to Federal Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt, to agree on a date for the withdrawal from the killing of male day-old chicks during the conference of agricultural ministers this week ...
Berlin / Hannover, 29. March 2017. The Amtschef- und Agrararministerkonferenz, which begins today in Hanover, is being held by the Zentralverband der Deutschen Geflügelwirtschaft e. V. (ZDG) as an opportunity to emphasize the urgency of a national livestock strategy with nationwide uniform regulations for animal husbandry ...
The measures to reduce the salmonella burden, which animal owners and veterinarians consistently implement in the QS system, are taking ...
Berlin, 23. March 2017. Current avian influenza in wild birds and livestock populations has reached unprecedented levels due to the particular aggressiveness of the current virus. Therefore, the Central Association of the German Poultry Industry (ZDG) and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) have jointly developed the previous, long-term biosecurity measures to prevent the entry of avian influenza in poultry flocks ...
Human, animal and food-borne bacteria continue to show resistance to commonly used antimicrobials, according to the latest report on bacterial antibiotic resistance, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have submitted jointly. The findings underline that antibiotic resistance represents a serious threat to human and animal health. Infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause about 25.000 deaths every year in the EU ...
From 2019, castration of piglets without anesthesia is prohibited by law in Germany. In order to counter the expected distortion of competition, the QS Advisory Board for Beef and Pork has already clarified the QS requirements ...
"Since the outbreak of the animal disease in November 2016, avian influenza has been officially identified in 1.089 wild birds and 78 cases in birds kept (poultry farms, zoos and animal parks)."
Berlin, March 3, 2017. Consumer protection, food safety and hygiene are of paramount importance in German egg production. In order to guarantee the highest level of consumer protection, compliance with a high standard of hygiene in the egg packing stations is of central importance ...
Delbrück (Paderborn district). For a poultry farmer in Delbrück and a neighboring company in Verl (near Gütersloh) authorities have ordered the killing, the so-called culling, of around 200.000 poultry animals. Suspicion: avian influenza ...
Berlin, January 27, 2017. Against the background of the current avian flu cases, the German poultry industry believes that the temporary maintenance of compulsory stalls is still the right measure to prevent the spread of avian flu and to protect the poultry populations from the H5 viruses in the best possible way. .