The Commission also found that these farms produced more eggs and poultry meat within that period than they sold. The ruling was based on findings of a monitoring of eggs and chicken meat sales from April - December 2006, revealing that the cost of their products rose 65% while the cost of fodder remained unchanged. It also said all three companies sold their products at the same price, an implication that they could have struck a shadow agreement to raise prices simultaneously. It said...

Tyson will make capital improvements this summer in order to begin pre-processing animal fat from some of its North American rendering facilities later in the year. ConocoPhillips also will begin the necessary capital expenditures to enable it to produce the fuel in several of its refineries. Over the last year, the companies have been collaborating on ways to leverage Tysons knowledge in protein chemistry and production with ConocoPhillips processing and marketing experience to introduce...

Moreover, the sources said that no infections have been recorded in past ten days, and bird flu has "vanished" from farms in Wafra where it had been heavily detected. The sources also noted that infected farm owners would be compensated within the next ten days, before allowing the farms to resume operations, for losses incurred by the culling of their poultry and banning the sale of live chicken. All live chicken outlets will also reopen within the next two weeks, said informed official...

A week after the commissioner of the Union animal and husbandry ministry, Mr SK Banerjee visited North 24-Parganas, the district authorities have set up a six member team in each of these ten blocks to carry out inspection of the poultry in bordering villages of Basirhat I, Basirhat II, Hasnabad, Swarupnagar, Gaighata, Bongaon, Bagda, Baduria, Hingalgunge, blocks. A week after the commissioner of the Union animal and husbandry ministry, Mr SK Banerjee visited North 24-Parganas, the...

In recent years, this avian flu strain has also been passed on from infected chickens and birds to human beings, raising fears of a possible pandemic. Via two million each of colourful posters and pamphlets being distributed to 40,000 schools in Thailand, children as young as four or five years are taught simple and easy steps about avian flu and how to avoid catching the disease from dead or ill fowl. Efforts like these to reach young people and inform them about how to prevent the H5N1...