The PCPP is inviting you to join us for the 2022 Poultry School Online !!! Continue the learning experience from industry leaders, innovative poultry practitioners, local and foreign experts, members of the academe and more with this year’s theme:
Strengthening the Poultry Industry Towards Sustainable Recovery.
Registration link:
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Official Statement on the Avian Influenza Outbreak
February 2022
In light of the recent detection of the high pathogenicity Avian Influenza virus subtype H5N1 in ducks and quails – in Baliuag, Bulacan and in Candaba and Mexico towns in Pampanga, the Philippine College of Poultry Practitioners is actively coordinating with the Bureau of Animal Industry in identifying ways to stop any further spread of the virus infection.
Together with the other organizations involved in poultry production, the collective efforts of all stakeholders in facing this tough, but correctable challenge to our industry is imperative.
There is a likelihood that the virus was introduced into our initially infected areas by wild migratory birds that may have gained access to poultry holding facilities lacking biosecurity provisions and/or programs. With this in mind, anyone who is involved in poultry farming – backyard or commercial farms – should review and strengthen their biosecurity activities to ensure keeping the virus away from the poultry population in their farms.
We would like to remind the general public that eggs and poultry meat are definitely safe to eat when cooked properly.
Should there be any observation of unusual increase in mortality, it is strongly advised that these be reported to your local veterinary office or the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Let us continue to protect our poultry industry.
Recognizing the integral role that veterinarians play in upholding animal welfare and in support of BAI’S drive to reach a wider audience regarding the provisions of RA 8485 and RA 10631, PCPP requested for a separate refresher session through the Animal Health and Welfare Division of the Bureau of Animal industry, headed by PCPP’s good friend, Dr. Samuel Animas. The request was gladly given attention and thus on 25 September 2020, PCPP had the pleasure to attend an online Animal Welfare session with special focus on poultry. Forty-two members of the college were in attendance for the said virtual event.
Three very able speakers talked about a couple of important topics – Mr. Norman B. Tan on Animal Welfare Laws; Its Implementing rules and regulations and DA Issuances; Dr. Maria Gracia D. Seynaeve presented DA Ao 12 series of 2002 – Code of practice and minimum standards for the welfare of chicken and lastly Dr. Noverlee P. Calub discussed BAI Animal Facility registration: Compliance to RA 8485.
Proudly presenting to you PCPP’s pioneering venture – The Poultry School Online!
For over two decades, PCPP has successfully ran the much awaited PCPP Poultry School, but current global scenario will not allow us to conduct it the traditional way this year. We, however, remain steadfast in our commitment to the industry we serve, by holding it virtually and present to you insights, information and innovations for us to thrive I the new normal.
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GCQ or MECQ will not stop PCPP from holding its evets. Last June 2, 2020, the PCPP Scientific Conference via Zoom commenced with Dr. Raul Lopez tackling the topic “Addressing Temperature Requirement of Broilers through Tunnel Ventilation ad Evaporative Cooling”. There were forty-eight (48) members in attendance.
The upcoming topics include “Addressing Equipment Issues in Tunnel Ventilated Buildings” by Dr. Arnel Amurao on June 3, 2020. “Automation in Layers-Climate System Design, Cage System and Lighting” by guest resource speaker, Dr. Herbert Cabral on June 10, 2020 and finally, Dr. Nancy Romano on June 10, 2020 will handle “Nutrition Requirement of Poultry for Optimum Performance I Climate-Controlled System and Conventional Housing”.
The PCPP Scientific Conference or SciCon is an annual technical session exclusive for PCPP members. Dr. Cezar Policarpio, PCPP President, thanked Dr. Arnel Bustamante, this year’s SciCon chair and head of Technical Committee, Dr. Gilet Cervantes for ably organizing this online conference.
Italy has experienced a second H5N8 wave of cases since July and a report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) highlighted there had been 48 outbreaks in poultry and 9 highly pathogenic H5 detections in wild birds between 1 September and 15 November.
Epidemiological investigations have suggested that sharing of vehicles and personnel have led to the spread of the disease in densely populated poultry areas.
Meanwhile, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has posted an update assessment regarding the H5N6 developments in the Netherlands, saying the discovery of the virus in mute swans is of concern because of their migratory patterns, which could cause a threat until February.
Defra is keeping the UK risk level for highly pathogenic avian influenza at medium for the time being, saying the focus was now on the potential spread of H5N6 virus rather than H5N8 which devastated Europe last winter.
Source : http://www.poultryworld.net/Health/Articles/2017/12/Different-strains-of-bird-flu-emerging-around-the-world-230106E/
SOURCE: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/948010/chickens-culled-nueva-ecija-quarantine-bird-flu-poultry#ixzz4zrrhXHEI
CABIAO, Nueva Ecija — Workers culled 42,000 chickens in a village here on Nov. 21, provincial administrator, Alejandro Abesamis, said on Monday, but neither he nor local officials had explained why.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol on Tuesday also neither confirmed nor denied that a new outbreak of avian influenza had struck this town, only saying the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) was still waiting for confirmatory tests.
Piñol said: “We commend the farm owner and the local veterinary officials for their vigilance. While waiting for confirmatory tests, they took it upon themselves to act … There is therefore no reason to be alarmed.”
“The DA (Department of Agriculture) is in full and complete control and necessary safeguards are in place,” he said in a text message.
Cabiao is near San Isidro, one of two towns quarantined in August by the DA due to bird flu infestations that forced veterinarians and poultry owners to kill about 300,000 birds there.
Sources said the chickens were raised by a poultry farm in Barangay Concepcion here. Local government records show that 15 poultry farms operate in Cabiao, five of which have been inactive since September.
Soledad Garcia, municipal veterinary officer, would not comment on the birds’ destruction, saying she was prohibited from discussing issues by the protocol established after the bird flu outbreak in August.
Possible resurgence
A bird flu outbreak was first announced on Aug. 11 in San Luis town in Pampanga province. A month later, President Rodrigo Duterte declared the outbreak over.
Given the possible resurgence of bird flu in Nueva Ecija, the DA will implement for the first time its new set of protocols created with the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF).
According to Piñol, culling operations will now only be done in the affected farms. Other farms surrounding the area will only be subjected to random tests.
Quarantine zones and control areas surrounding the bird flu infestation site will also be removed, unlike the protocols used during the first outbreak.
This time, Piñol said, the new guidelines will not stop the movement of poultry stocks during an outbreak. In August, BAI released a memorandum banning the shipment of chickens and poultry products from Luzon to the Visayas and Mindanao.
New protocols
“These new protocols are in line with international standards and approved by the industry stakeholders during the last PCAF meeting,” Piñol said.
The DA is also planning to enforce a clustering system, by dividing the country into zones to contain any future outbreaks. Luzon will be Cluster A, Visayas, Cluster B, and Mindanao, Cluster C.
“If there will be an outbreak in the Visayas, or Cluster B, we can tell other countries [which] import meat from us that Cluster A and Cluster C are safe,” Piñol said.
“That’s what they also do in other countries like Brazil and India. When we buy buffalo in India, we source it from areas with no reported cases
The Philippines is confident it will regain its bird flu-free status by yearend, more than four months after it was hit by the H5 strain of the avian flu virus.
Concerned officials said that since the bird-flu outbreak hit egg-producing provinces in Central Luzon in early August, there has been no case reported.
Ronnie D. Domingo, officer in charge of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), said that the Paris-based OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health)recognises a country as bird flu-free once it does not report any new outbreaks 90 days after the last disinfection of affected areas. In the case of the Philippines, it will be on Dec. 20.
As early as September, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol declared that the country’s bird-flu crisis was over. The August outbreak was the first in at least 10 years.
Domingo said that they intend to send an official report to OIE by Dec. 20 that states the Philippines is already bird flu-free.
Sentinel birds
“We will inform them (OIE) that we have already conducted disinfection procedures and have controlled the movement of animals,” Domingo was quoted as saying by the Business Mirror.
“The OIE does not give official recognition. What is important is that we report to them 90 days after our last disinfection so that our report will come out in the OIE database that the Philippines is already cleared of the AI (avian influenza),” he explained.
Domingo also said the government was set to deploy sentinel birds in affected farms in Jaen and San Isidro towns in Nueva Ecija province, and in San Luis, Pampanga, this week.
The 35-day observation period would start once the sentinel birds have been deployed. The deployment of sentinel birds is part of our interventions to ensure that an area is totally free of avian influenza,” he said.
The sentinel birds, which will be grown and observed in the affected areas, must test negative for bird flu to ensure that the area is free from the virus.
http://www.efeedlink.com/contents/11-10-2017/7e62a38c-f502-45cd-9b8c-e98a67f58798-a181.html
