Sally Furniss
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24 July 2006 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="5"><tbody><tr><td height="5">
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The New Zealand poultry meat industry is free of birdflu.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The completion of a comprehensive testing programme for notifiable avian influenza had clearly demonstrated that the New Zealand Poultry meat industry of the disease, Poultry Industry Association executive director Michael Brooks said today. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The testing programme not only sought evidence of the presence of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza but also low pathogenic notifiable avian influenza by testing blood samples from thousands of poultry meat birds. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The numbers tested were required to meet an internationally agreed level of statistical validity. [/FONT]
Low pathogenic avian influenza can be carried by birds with little or no impact on their health. The[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif] testing programme results proved freedom from both high and low pathogenic notifiable avian influenza. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"We were always confident that our strict on-farm biosecurity and internal industry surveillance would ensure the poultry meat industry would be free of the disease," said Mr Brooks. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"Now we have irrefutable proof." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Biosecurity New Zealand carried out the testing programme to meet new World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reporting requirements and to demonstrate New Zealand's commercial poultry meat freedom from notifiable avian influenza. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]New Zealand is part of a global network for early warning and detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"We have always maintained that the New Zealand poultry meat industry has a unique major poultry disease-free status, unparalleled in the rest of the world," Mr Brooks said. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"This result further reinforces this belief, is a reflection of our commitment to biosecurity and is something the poultry meat industry can be justifiably proud of." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]There are many strains of avian influenza viruses, which are naturally present in many species of healthy wild birds, especially water fowl. Most strains of avian influenza virus do not cause disease in birds and are not of human health concern. [/FONT]
24 July 2006 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="5"><tbody><tr><td height="5">
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The New Zealand poultry meat industry is free of birdflu.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The completion of a comprehensive testing programme for notifiable avian influenza had clearly demonstrated that the New Zealand Poultry meat industry of the disease, Poultry Industry Association executive director Michael Brooks said today. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The testing programme not only sought evidence of the presence of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza but also low pathogenic notifiable avian influenza by testing blood samples from thousands of poultry meat birds. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The numbers tested were required to meet an internationally agreed level of statistical validity. [/FONT]
Low pathogenic avian influenza can be carried by birds with little or no impact on their health. The[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif] testing programme results proved freedom from both high and low pathogenic notifiable avian influenza. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"We were always confident that our strict on-farm biosecurity and internal industry surveillance would ensure the poultry meat industry would be free of the disease," said Mr Brooks. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"Now we have irrefutable proof." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Biosecurity New Zealand carried out the testing programme to meet new World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reporting requirements and to demonstrate New Zealand's commercial poultry meat freedom from notifiable avian influenza. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]New Zealand is part of a global network for early warning and detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"We have always maintained that the New Zealand poultry meat industry has a unique major poultry disease-free status, unparalleled in the rest of the world," Mr Brooks said. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"This result further reinforces this belief, is a reflection of our commitment to biosecurity and is something the poultry meat industry can be justifiably proud of." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]There are many strains of avian influenza viruses, which are naturally present in many species of healthy wild birds, especially water fowl. Most strains of avian influenza virus do not cause disease in birds and are not of human health concern. [/FONT]