NCC’s Peterson speaks on HPAI, Salmonella at Poultry Symposium

Dr. Ashley Peterson, senior VP of scientific and regulatory affairs with the National Chicken Council in the US, spoke recently at the Poultry Symposium in Rogers, Arkansas, hosted by The Poultry Federation. Peterson covered many topics in her talk including avian influenza, biosecurity, processor line speeds, Salmonella and welfare.

 

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

“Avian Influenza is still impacting our industry, which not only impacts what we deal with here, domestically, but it has trade impacts on our industry as well. We had a recent detection in California, which is concerning and a little bit different than what we’ve seen with this virus, specifically, what we dealt with in 2014 and 2015,” she said. “Biosecurity is the #1 thing that the industry can do to try to keep avian influenza out of poultry barns.” Read more