The flock of approximately 100 birds has access to the outdoors.

Injury and illness rates down from year ago and down 80 percent since 1994.

The imports limit is to come into effect as of Dec. 5.

Guide contains information regarding how official establishments that produce ready-to-cook poultry can meet the new chilling requirements that became effective on Oct. 20.

The World Trade Organization has ruled that India illegally blocked U.S. poultry imports because of unsubstantiated bird flu fears.

USPOULTRY releases new video; NCC details antibiotic use in new Q&A. Groups say antibiotics used in human medicine will be phased out for growth promotion by 2016.

Last week, the farm sector's attention turned to poultry after Russia's Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Surveillance Service said it found signs of the antibiotic tracycline in four shipments of U.S. poultry.

Revised modernization effort includes new preventative measures, re-focused inspection activities that will prevent thousands of illnesses annually and improved coordination on worker safety.

Poultry inspection modernization would prevent 5,200 annual foodborne illnesses, says FSIS.

China imposed the ban in 2007 after turkeys at a farm in Virginia tested positive for avian flu.