Monthly Archives: February, 2026

Europe demands the world's strictest standards from its poultry farmers, yet opens the door to imports that do not meet them. The EU-Mercosur agreement is being pushed through on a fast track, bypassing the European Parliament. The much-touted "safeguards" appear to have been designed as little more than a reassuring name. Consistency or hypocrisy?

Brussels is intent on applying the EU-Mercosur agreement immediately, without waiting for a European Parliament vote. Meanwhile, a European Commission audit of Brazil reveals serious sanitary deficiencies in exporting slaughterhouses. Democracy or a fait accompli?

Spain has officially regained its status as a country free of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), according to the self-declaration submitted by Spain to the World Organisation for Animal Health.\n\nThe declaration brings to an end a period of more than six months marked by the successive detection of 16 outbreaks of the H5N1 virus on poultry holdings across seven autonomous communities.

Results obtained on environmental comfort in broilers using a system that combines evaporative cooling pads ("cool cells") and foggers, compared with traditional systems that cool using only one or the other system.

A study from the University of Edinburgh reveals that exposure to continuous white light during the final days of incubation modifies the behavioural patterns of laying chicks and modulates their response to environmental enrichment.

Summary of the 2026 update of MAPA's programme for the control of Salmonella in broiler chickens.\n\nThanks to successive national programmes, the combined prevalence (self-monitoring in broilers + official controls) has declined dramatically.\n\n

nWHO FOOTS THE BILL IN FRANCE FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA VACCINATION?nnnnNow in its third year, France's vaccination campaign against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has...

Madrid, 20 February 2026 — The broiler poultry sector faces an increasingly complex landscape, shaped by raw material cost volatility, tighter regulation, and the...

nIn modern poultry farming, we have become experts at monitoring the environment. Birds are continuously monitored by sensors measuring ambient temperature, relative humidity, CO2,...

We provide a practical explanation of the 2026 update to the National Salmonella Control Programme for laying hens (PNCS), published by Spain's MAPA, covering the period 2025–2027. \n\nThe objective remains to keep the prevalence of S. Enteritidis and S. Typhimurium below 2% in adult flocks, with a rate of 1.47% having been achieved in 2024. \n\nThe obligations for laying hen producers are detailed one by one.