Source: Andre Sulluchuco, MEATINGPLACE, 9/15/14

Mexico hopes to be declared free of avian flu H7N3 by September 2015 through a new program devoted to disease control and eradication, said the Mexican Service of Health, Food Safety and Food Quality (SENASICA) in a press release.

SENASICA officials recently met with the Mexican National Union of Poultry Producers (UNA) to discuss the program’s development since its debut in March.   

The “Temporary Program to Control and Eradicate the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H7N3” evaluates each Mexican state and its contribution to the entire process, mainly in bird control and vaccination, until the entire country is free of the disease.

SENASICA Director Enrique Sánchez Cruz called upon local poultry producers to continue working together until the bird disease is eradicated at a national level. He said that the high-level collaboration between his entity and the UNA also strives to solve sanitation, biosecurity and food safety issues.

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