South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs strengthens quarantine standards for quail and turkey breeding facilities

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Seon-mi = In order to prevent the spread of contagious livestock diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI), quarantine facility standards for other poultry such as quail and turkey will be strengthened. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 17th that it would revise the Enforcement Rule of the Livestock Contagious Disease Prevention Act and promulgate it on the 18th. Implementation begins on July 19, three months after the promulgation. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs decided to apply the same standards for installation of disinfection facilities and quarantine facilities, which were applied only to chicken and duck breeding, to quail, turkey, goose, ostrich, pheasant, and wild goose. For laying hens farms raising more than 100,000 chickens, it is mandatory to install 'tunnel-type disinfection facilities', which are known to have good disinfection effects. In addition to farm ...