USA UPDATES ITS NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
May 1st, 2019
THE US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is set to release proposed reforms to the country’s National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), a decades-old cooperative federal-state-industry mechanism for controlling poultry disease threats.
APHIS said the revisions were discussed at the NPIP biennial conference held last June (2018) and will incorporate the latest science, technology and best practices in the sector.
The inspection service had been waiting for comments received until May 13 on its proposals, ...
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