News tagged with poultry producers

Pfizer will stop selling poultry-pumping drug: US

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will voluntarily suspend US sales of a poultry-pumping additive after studies showed it can leave traces of arsenic in chicken livers, the US government said on Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A chicken coup: Group seeks to protect rare breeds

(AP) -- At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America's dinner tables.

Biology / Other

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Treating poultry diseases without antibiotics

Identifying antimicrobial proteins in chickens that kill pathogens is one method being used by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to find alternatives to the use of antibiotics to control infectious ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers take virus-tracking software worldwide

A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.

Technology / Software

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bird vocalization research could improve poultry production, lower costs

Chickens can’t speak, but they can definitely make themselves heard. Most people who have visited a poultry farm will recall chicken vocalization – the technical term for clucking and squawking – ...

Biology / Other

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wasted milk is a real drain on our resources, study shows

Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Long-term monitoring shows 60 percent reduction in acidity of Delaware rain

Several decades ago, precipitation in Delaware was among the most acidic in the country. Pollutants in the air reacted with rainwater to sprinkle sulfuric, nitric and carbonic acids onto the ground below, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Vaccinating chickens could prevent food-borne illness

A vaccine could be developed to prevent Campylobacter being carried in chickens. This approach could drastically cut the number of cases of food poisoning, saving the UK economy millions each year, says an American scient ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Court orders FDA action on antibiotic use on farms

(AP) -- A federal court judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35-year-old rule that would stop farmers from mixing popular antibiotics into animal feed, a practice which is widely believed ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Herbs Made Easy gives new twist on homegrown spices

Herbs can be fun to buy and easy to grow, but how to use them sometimes puzzles home gardeners, Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialists note.

Biology / Other

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Arctic evolution leads to salmonella vaccine

Bacteria harvested from the frigid waters of the Arctic could be the key to a new type of temperature-sensitive vaccine. University of Victoria microbiology researcher Dr. Francis Nano has received Genome BC Proof-of-Concept ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A zap of cold plasma reduces harmful bacteria on raw chicken

A new study by food safety researchers at Drexel University demonstrates that plasma can be an effective method for killing pathogens on uncooked poultry. The proof-of-concept study was published in the January issue of the ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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