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The avian influenza housing measures have been extended in the north of England to mitigate the risk of further outbreaks of the disease, Defra confirmed.

Defra has just announced that the free-range poultry meat producers and processors will no longer need to change how free-range poultry meat is labelled when mandatory housing measures are introduced.

Cranswick has said it is disappointed at the local council’s decision to block proposals to redevelop an existing pig farm and redundant poultry sheds.

Farming leaders have stressed the importance of retailers keeping promises given to farmers, following news that Asda has moved away from its pledge to source only British poultry. 

A Devon farmer who was forced to cull 5,000 hens following a bird flu outbreak on his farm is “overwhelmed” after people from around the world fundraised £35,000 for his business in less than a week.

In response to increased findings of highly pathogenic bird flu in wild birds as well as new cases in poultry and kept birds, coupled with heightened risk levels, the avian influenza housing measures are being extended to mitigate the risk of further outbreaks of the disease.

Welsh poultry farmers urged not to be complacent as AIPZ introduced in response to the growing threat of avian flu.

The infection was acquired on a farm, where the person had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds.

More than six tonnes of illegal meat were seized at Dover Port during a 14-hour period at the beginning of December.

The High Court has recently dismissed an appeal by the activist group, The Humane League, following its previous discharge of the group’s claims that the Defra secretary of state was acting unlawfully in allowing so-called ‘fast-growing chickens’. 

Following detections of avian influenza in poultry, wild and captive birds across the East Riding of Yorkshire, City of Kingston Upon Hull, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, a prevention zone has been declared across the region to mitigate the risk of further outbreaks of the disease.