Several years ago regulators finally permitted irradiation of pork, poultry, fruits, vegetables, spices and grains.
Away from the factory floor, worries about unsafe poultry are already high in China.
The child, whose parents are poultry traders, developed a fever, sore throat and headache on Thursday.
Of the patients analyzed so far, half appear to have had no contact whatsoever with poultry.
Another problem is the absence of visible illness in poultry infected with the new virus.
Restrictions are in place at a Suffolk poultry farm after a bird flu outbreak.
Avian flu viruses can sometimes spread to domestic poultry and cause large-scale outbreaks of serious disease.
Fears were expressed about hawks escaping and attacking wildlife and nearby chickens on a poultry farm.
In addition to its efforts to improve hospital capacity, the city has tightened poultry controls.
"Like having a 25-pound baby, " says Robert Elkin, head of Pennsylvania State University's poultry science department.
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The WHO believes that poultry is still the likely source of the H7N9 outbreak in China.
Clearly, all three major poultry producers have struggled to sustain their profit margins.
Agribusiness farming operations are notorious for nitrogen and phosphorus runoff (particularly from poultry and hog farms).
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He said they were likely not the only species of poultry to be carrying the virus.
Poultry and its products are safe to eat as long as they are properly cooked.
"We conducted investigations and found that all the cases were transmission from the poultry, " said Sovann.
The one that flourished was a poultry and egg business they ran in Grand Island, Nebraska.
But the biggest obstacle is the poverty that propels millions of families to breed backyard poultry.
But Jagger Poultry's director John Palmer said the campaign did not have local support.
Salmonella, which is generally contracted from contaminated poultry, meat, eggs, or water, affects the intestinal tract.
Next up: the European frozen-food and tuna businesses and Tegel, a New Zealand poultry producer.
Contaminated poultry is particularly deadly, accounting for 19% of food-related deaths, the CDC said.
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Out of 218 confirmed human cases almost all those infected have caught the disease from poultry.
The French and Dutch were authorised by the European Union to vaccinate some of their poultry.
Colombia's rice growers and poultry farmers look to be on the wrong side of comparative advantage.
There are other contentious trade issues too, ranging from poultry-slaughtering methods to genetically modified maize.
On January 5, a 19-year-old Beijing woman died of bird flu after handling poultry, officials said.
Delmarva Poultry Industry's Bill Satterfield says the standards are not relevant to how chickens are raised today.
In England, it has poultry plants in Essex and Suffolk and red meat processing plants in Cornwall.
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