IEC Launches Avian Influenza Action Plan

21st May 2015

The IEC is launching its ‘Avian Influenza Action Plan’, a series of initiatives related to combating avian influenza to provide immediate support for the egg industry and to co-ordinate a series of actions internationally with the ultimate long term goal of ridding the egg industry of this destructive disease.

First steps are to create the Avian Influenza Task Force and to hold an urgent face to face meeting with the head of the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) to push for practical action on promoting 'Compartmentalisation'.

IEC will; provide a central international communications hub on avian influenza, be the link between the global egg industry and the OIE, and be responsible for communicating information and best practices to IEC members and the wider egg industry.