GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture Tyler Harper on July 10 issued his enhance to a contemporary federal, bipartisan Congressional effort that seeks to induce USDA to petition the Global Group for Animal Well being (WOAH) to factor a revision to the definition of “poultry.”
With this yr’s outbreaks of extremely pathogenic avian influenza affecting wild birds, non-commercial birds, advertisement birds, dairy farm animals, and a minimum of 4 folks, this effort notes that the present definition does now not paintings for all of the segments and in order that infections don’t impact global business a brand new definition is wanted. As an example. . .