1.2 million chickens ordered to be slaughtered due to salmonellosis outbreak in Sweden

Sweden's largest egg producer, which before a salmonellosis outbreak had nearly 1.2 million birds, or 20 percent of the country's laying hens, has been ordered to cull all the animals so the facility can be cleaned in depth. The Swedish Board of Agriculture has given up attempts to clean chicken coops at CA Cederdren, which has suffered from recurring salmonellosis outbreaks over the past year, Sweden's main agricultural news outlet ATL said on Wednesday. Swedish authorities have attempted to clean up infected chicken coops in the southern Swedish firm. “It was not successful and now we have reinfection, we have to do something different,” Katharina Gielen, head of infection control at the board, told ATL. It was unclear how many animals would be euthanized. CA Cedergren had no immediate comment. Sweden suffered a brief egg shortage in July as a result of a salmonellosis outbreak that affected the company in December 2022, ATL said. In April, all deliveries from CA Cedergren were ...