The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has doubled the avian
influenza quarantine zone from five to 10 kilometers, capturing another 21 poultry
farms that can no longer move anything in or out.
The poultry industry asked for the expansion, even though
there has been no new outbreak since the original one at a turkey farm near
Woodstock.
In return, the Ontario poultry-breeding industry regains
access to the United States market. That’s crucial to companies such as Hybrid
Turkeys of Kitchener and Shaver Poultry Breeding, which markets egg-laying
strains, of Cambridge.
“The U.S. officials have informed their port services
personnel to give the port veterinarians in Detroit, Port Huron and Niagara
Falls the go-ahead to clear shipments of hatching eggs/day- old chicks/poults
effective immediately, April 11, 2015,” says a notice on the website of Chicken
Farmers of Ontario.
