Monthly Archives: June, 2025

A staunch advocate for livestock farming, Didier Lucas has been elected President of SPACE, succeeding Marcel Denieul after more than 10 years presiding over...

The expansion of CReSA reinforces the surveillance system for zoonotic viruses and emerging diseases that directly or indirectly affect animal production. The new laboratory, operational in 2028, will include insectaries and capacity to study respiratory and vector-borne viruses with implications for poultry health.

Valencia, 27 June 2025. The Valencian company Huevos Guillén, a leading egg supplier to Mercadona, is engaged in an ambitious expansion process and a...

A large-scale fire swept through one of the slaughterhouse buildings at Pollos Cano, located in Salvatierra de los Barros (Badajoz), in the early hours...

This quarterly report, just published on 24 June 2025, produced jointly by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza (EURL), provides a comprehensive overview of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) situation from March to June 2025. The report details virus detections in poultry, captive birds and wild birds, as well as in mammals, both in Europe and globally. The document also examines human infection cases, highlighting the rarity of animal-to-human transmission and the absence of human-to-human transmission during the reporting period.

The Brazilian Government announced on Tuesday, 24 June, that 17 countries have already lifted their restrictions on Brazilian poultry and resumed trade operations following...

The founder of EW Group —parent company of Aviagen, Lohmann, Hy-Line, Hubbard, Vaxxinova, Hygiena and EW Nutrition— celebrated his 80th birthday by announcing the...

Pondex (Vall Companys Group) incorporates automatic chick sexing technology into one of its hatcheries in partnership with Targan. Pondex S.A.U. has partnered with Targan...

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) has notified the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) of the end of the sanitary standstill period. After 28 days with no new cases recorded, the country self-declares free of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial farms. The quarantine period began on 22 May, following the disinfection of the farm located in Montenegro (RS), where on 16 May the first and only outbreak of the disease in a commercial farm in Brazil was detected. Prior to this incident, all previously recorded cases in Brazil had occurred exclusively in wild and backyard birds.

The Spanish Confederation of Compound Animal Feed Manufacturers held its General Assembly on 18 June 2025, at which it presented its publication "Mercados Estadística"....