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Poultry industry won?t release biosecurity audits after B.C. avian flu outbreak
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun February 22, 2015
... The board decision comes despite the B.C. government emphasizing to marketing boards the importance of showing transparency to the public.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency first discovered the H5N2 strain of avian flu on a turkey farm in Abbotsford and a broiler breeder farm in Chilliwack on Dec. 1, 2014. By Dec. 17, it had spread to a total of 11 commercial poultry operations as far away as Langley, resulting in the deaths of 245,600 birds.
Neither the source of the flu nor how it spread between farms has been determined...
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun February 22, 2015
... The board decision comes despite the B.C. government emphasizing to marketing boards the importance of showing transparency to the public.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency first discovered the H5N2 strain of avian flu on a turkey farm in Abbotsford and a broiler breeder farm in Chilliwack on Dec. 1, 2014. By Dec. 17, it had spread to a total of 11 commercial poultry operations as far away as Langley, resulting in the deaths of 245,600 birds.
Neither the source of the flu nor how it spread between farms has been determined...