Under the proposed new rules, according to the Gainesville Times, poultry facilities and other industrial facilities near impaired streams would have to capture rain in heavy storms.
In the Fall 2008, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) publication PoultryTech reported on the potential of using an optical biosensor developed by GTRI for the detection of the avian influenza (AI) virus*. The optical sensor is low-cost, easy to use, field-deployable, and provides rapid results less than 30 minutes.
