Farm market to ban live poultry to help prevent avian influenza

Introduction: according to relevant officials of the Ministry of agriculture, it will be slaughtered and sold first to help prevent avian influenza (reporter Tangyang) At present, the mode of direct transportation of live poultry in animal husbandry from the main production area to the agricultural market in the main sales area will be greatly changed Yesterday, Zhang Zhongqiu, deputy director general of the animal husbandry department of the Ministry of agriculture, said in an interview with Xinhua that in the future, live poultry will be slaughtered and processed in the main sales area to form qualified cold fresh and ice fresh chicken and poultry products and then sold in the market Zhang Zhongqiu believes that this will help reduce unnecessary cross and morbidity of live birds and animals and prevent avian influenza Zhang Zhongqiu said that in terms of the prevention of avian influenza, the momentum and frequency of live animal flow in China is very large At present, live poultry from the main production area to the main sales area, after several kilometers of transportation, directly to the agricultural market to sell, prone to cross infection Zhang Zhongqiu believes that we should gradually change this habit, make sure that the main sales area has passed the standard slaughtering and processing, and form qualified cold and fresh, ice fresh chicken and livestock and poultry products, so that it can be a commodity that can be traced back to the origin When this system is established, it is the direction of the development of livestock products as safe consumption.