After deliberations, Scandinavian food company, Atria, has decided to close its Sahalahti factory in Finland in favor of centralizing operations at its new Nurmo plant. 

Continuing the continent’s worst season for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), seven European countries have recorded new outbreaks of the disease in commercial poultry. Among them is Hungary, where 17 new outbreaks have been confirmed.

The U.K. government is being called on to investigate how the market for eggs operates and offer support, as retailers finally up their help to a struggling industry.

In its latest half-year results, Europe’s largest poultry company reports double-digit increases in both turnover and net profit. 

Based in the United Kingdom (U.K.), food group Cranswick plc reported a double-digit increase in revenue for the first half of this fiscal year, while profitability was down only marginally.

Europe is living through its worst highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak, making vaccination look increasingly attractive.

So far this year, the number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on European poultry farms confirmed with one agency has reached 2,000. This total does not include the United Kingdom — experiencing by far its worst ever outbreak season — or non-commercial flocks.

With a focus on sustainability and welfare, the center of attention at this year’s EuroTier was firmly inside the show halls and not with the protestors at the showground entrance.

Moy Park, which earlier announced a proposed plan to close its poultry plant in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, U.K., decided that the plant will not close, but instead be downsized and repurposed.

In France, measures to control the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) now include the mandatory housing of all poultry across the country. 

As Europe suffers its worst-ever avian influenza season, farm workers becoming infected was probably simply a matter of time.

As the number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry continues to rise, authorities in France and England have announced measures to tighten biosecurity on farms, including mandatory housing of commercial poultry.