Quick bites from around the food safety arena
Today's Topic: Fowl plague The United States is now in its fifth year of playing defense against an outbreak of avian influenza, the most significant threat to global animal health and food security. It has also become the costliest avian influenza response in U.S. history.
And the offense is still winning.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly known as bird flu, is a disease caused by a virus that mainly affects birds but can also affect mammals, including humans.