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A research team has discovered a banned antibiotic in animal feed prepared from poultry by-products. The concern is the antibiotic creates resistant bacteria, and some of these bacteria are food pathogens and could pose a public health risk.
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In a disturbing situation, approximately 50,000 chickens were found dying at an egg farm outside of Modesto, Calif. last week.
Officials say the tens of thousands of hens were starving, and had not been fed or given water in about two weeks.
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A pilot program by the United States Department of Agriculture privatizing inspection of poultry products is being allowed to proceed, even though records show scabs, feathers, bile, sores and digestive tract tissue often remain in poultry carcasses.
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A 39-year-old bus driver has become the first victim of bird flu in over a year in China in the province of Shenzen, after developing what had at first appeared to be pneumonia.
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Thousands of chickens and turkeys at farms in North Carolina and Kansas died as temperatures soared to around 43C (110F) this week.
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Vatran's Fine Foods, Inc., a Tracy, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 11,500 pounds of assorted meat and poultry products.
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Mucci’s Food Products, Inc., a Canton, Mich., establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of frozen meat and poultry pasta products which are adulterated and misbranded.
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Khong Guan Corporation, a Union City, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,858 pounds of chicken drink products that were ineligible for import to the U.S.
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On Wednesday federal agents raided Pilgrim's Pride chicken plants in five states. This is the latest move aimed at cracking down on illegal-immigrant labor.
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The H5N1 virus has killed a number of birds at a poultry farm in Southern Germany. As a result over 160,000 birds will be killed as a precaution. This is not the first time this deadly strain of avian flu has been detected in Germany.
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The US drags India to the World Trade Organization challenging Delhi's ban on imports of American poultry goods.
 An early morning fire at a poultry farm west of Canora, Sask., destroyed a barn with some 20,000 chicks inside, RCMP say.
 Ontario Agriculture Ministry workers are helping provincial police round up chickens loose on Highway 401 between the eastern Ontario towns of Cardinal and Iroquois after a tractor-trailer transporting the poultry overturned.
Chicken is the top-selling meat in the United States. The average American eats 84 pounds a year, more chicken than beef or pork. Sorry red meat, chicken is what’s for dinner. And now the USDA is proposing a fundamental change in the way that poultry...
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Information presented by PharmPro suggests that ten people have died in Cambodia, Indonesia, Egypt, China and Vietnam...
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by: Gluten Free - Chef Michael Bennett: I sometimes feel like I am in a multi-step rehab program. Why I have changed...
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Over 90% of cases of a common form of food poisoning seen this year were due to people eating undercooked chicken liver...
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An arsenic-containing drug used in chicken feed will no longer be sold in the U.S. after FDA researchers detected a...
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If you like animals you do not watch this video. You will weep for the incident. If you like chicken food you will...
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