Members encouraged to share Avian Influenza advice for poultry keepers
AIC Member businesses are being encouraged to share important advice on the need for biosecurity during the ongoing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak.
The UK is facing its largest ever outbreak of the disease, with a UK-wide Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) in force to minimise its spread.
The British Veterinary Poultry Association (BVPA) has shared advice, which is aimed at "backyard" poultry keepers, explaining how HPAI is spread, the symptoms, and measures required to prevent or minimise transmission.
AIC Members and scheme participants are encouraged to make this advice available to customers and employees.
Please click the link below to view and download the BVPA advice.
BVPA Backyard poultry biosecurity advice final December 2022.pdf
Authors
Simon Williams
Simon Williams is Technical Manager for AIC Services. He is based at AIC Head Office, Peterborough and is responsible for the management and coordination of the FEMAS and UFAS assurance schemes as well as being the key contact for mutual recognition with European scheme owners and managing Earned Recognition relationships with UK feed and food competent authorities.
Oli Hill
As Head of Communications, Oli creates and oversees the content published on AIC's website, emails, Member briefings, print publications, and social media. A qualified multimedia journalist, he previously spent six years working at Farmers Weekly magazine as a Senior Reporter on the arable team, and latterly as Community Editor. More recently he was Communications Manager at Red Tractor.
