Opening of borders can ease South Africa's egg shortage

Published 2023년 10월 25일

Tridge summary

The South African Poultry Association's Egg Organization is supportive of the importation of fertile eggs and other egg products to assist with the current egg shortage caused by the avian influenza outbreak. They believe that importing powdered and liquid eggs for industrial use will allow them to prioritize fresh table eggs for consumers. However, they also emphasize the need for regulations to protect consumers from substandard eggs and do not support lifting the 40-day rule for selling eggs in South Africa. They are calling on the government to help facilitate discussions with neighboring countries that are not affected by avian influenza to assist with the egg supply.

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The South Africa Poultry Association's Egg Organization recently welcomed the announcement of minister Thoko Didiza, minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, on allowing the importation of fertile eggs for hatcheries including products such as powder and liquid eggs. These are good steps to assist the industry during this crisis. Under normal circumstances, the South African egg industry has about 27 million hens that provide us with eggs daily. Unfortunately, about six million of those layer hens have been culled with another three million suspected to be affected. As an industry, we have fully agreed to import a bulk of powder and liquid eggs which are mainly used for industrial purposes, and then channel all the available fresh table eggs to the consumers. This will assist us during the egg shortage while we are rebuilding the flock size and waiting for vaccines to be allowed in South Africa. Read more about the South African strain of avian influenza. We ...

Source: Agriorbit