Brazil

In 2022, FACTA promotes scientific debates to advance aviculture. Events promoted by FACTA addressed technical issues, animal health, nutrition, markets and industrialization.

In the second semester of 2022, FACTA promoted a series of events that analysed several aspects of the aviculture industry, poultry and egg production alike, addressing production matters, science, technical aspects, animal health, markets, and industrialization.

During the International Poultry and Pork Show (SIAVS), FACTA organized its Symposium on the use of performance-enhancing antimicrobials. The event counted with the participation of specialists from supplying companies, agro-industries, and academic institutions, resulting in a wide debate on the multiple themes involved in an approach to production without the use of performance-enhancing antimicrobials.

Autogenous Vaccines

FACTA promoted a Symposium on the use of autogenous vaccines for birds, swine and fish (tilapia) productive systems. Marcos Vinícius Santana Leandro, veterinarian from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock lectured on ‘Brazilian Legislation on Autogenous Vaccines for Animal Health’.

According to him, the Ministry has the role of making the most tools available for diagnosing, preventing, and treating animal diseases, including zoonoses.

Professor Luiz Felipe Caron, from Universidade Federal do Paraná, focused on the applied principles of vaccinology and non-replicating autogenous vaccines. He stated that, by definition, autogenous vaccines must fulfil some requirements in order to be classified as such.

Professor Terezinha Knöbl from Universidade de São Paulo lectured on the topic ‘Why using autogenous vaccines against bacterial bird diseases’. According to her, autogenous vaccines represent a faster alternative to respond to outbreaks, since the time of manufacture is reduced by the elimination of some steps of clinical and pre-clinical trials and the issuing of an authorization for immediate use.

Larissa Pickler from BRF presented a case study on heavy breeders. She reported that clinical symptoms started to show up in breeders around 7-10 days of age.

The veterinarian Cristiane Cantelli, from Grupo Mantiqueira, presented a case study on the use of autogenous vaccines on commercial layers. According to her, this tool is used in the prevention of colibacilloses, salmonellosis, coryza, and other diseases.

The veterinarian G. Donald Ritter, from Poultry Business Solutions LLC, brought a case study on the strategies for using autogenous vaccines against IBDV in the production of broilers. He highlighted that the optimization of passive protection against IBDV is a continuous process in the USA.

Professor Guilherme Arruda Cezar, from Iowa State University College, presented a case study on the use of genomic sequencing in the monitoring and vaccination against the Influenza A virus (IAV).

Symposium on Salmonella

FACTA organized the Symposium on Salmonella. The event aimed to evaluate the environmental factors responsible for the persistence of salmonellae in broiler houses, as well as the most important factors that represent risk of failure in biosecurity procedures, thus emphasizing the importance of preventing salmonellosis.

Veterinarian and consultant Nelva Grando gave a lecture addressing the importance of integrated Salmonella control for food safety. When comparing Brazilian and American policies, she highlighted the importance of transparency of information on Salmonella.

Susana Cazerta addressed ‘Good Fabrication Practices, emphasizing biosecurity’. She lectured on food safety, potential dangers, and fabrication practices used to control Salmonella in feed factories.

The Swedish veterinarian Martin Wierup focused on the theme ‘Feed Factories: prevention measures, monitoring, and control’. According to him, Salmonella-contaminated feed is an important source of contagion of the disease in animal production.

The veterinarian Letícia Dalberto lectured on ‘Pre-slaughter and transportation: impacts on the contamination with Salmonella during slaughter’. She argued that regardless of the rigorous control during the whole rearing process, the last eight hours before slaughter can jeopardize the chain and considerably increase the prevalence of Salmonella in the slaughterhouse.

The veterinarian Jaap Obdam spoke about the critical points for Salmonella control. He highlighted the main reasons to eliminate, reduce, and control Salmonella in aviculture, as well as critical points of Salmonella control in the slaughterhouse, hygiene and biosecurity, sampling per flock, loading and transportation, scalding, defeathering, and the evisceration and cooling department modules.

Embrapa researcher Clarissa Vaz focused on the topic ‘Does the litter management we do actually work?’. According to her, the close contact of the litter with broilers since the housing of chicks until the loading of the flock for slaughter causes the material to accumulate several types of residues, such as feathers, feed remains, insects, excretions and respiratory secretions.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock veterinarian Daniela Baptista presented data from the official Salmonella control by the PNSA (National Avian Health Plan, in the Portuguese acronym). She also gave details on the PNSA.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock veterinarian Suzana Bresslau gave a lecture titled ‘Public policies for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – monitoring of Salmonella spp. Isolates from Brazil’. She discussed the relevance of AMR, recommendations of reference institutions, current agreements, results of AMR in Brazilian isolates from broiler production, as well as challenges and opportunities.

FACTA promotes North-eastern Symposium on Egg Production, Processing, and Marketing

in Recife (PE). The event was entirely offline. The current scenario of production and supply, legislation, animal health, nutrition, productive systems, costs, and industrialization of egg production was discussed for three days.

Josiane Tavares de Abreu, PhD in preventive veterinary medicine, president of COESA-MG and member of FACTA'S technical body, was one of the highlights, lecturing on biosecurity in practice.

José Henrique Stringhini, professor of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences of the Universidade Federal de Goiás, discussed the use of additives in poultry diets. He discussed the use of additives in layers' diets and stressed intestinal health as a crucial determinant for the inclusion of additives to promote bird health and consolidate the good performance expected of modern commercial layer lines.

Carla Palermo - FACTA WPSA Brazil (), Event & Communications

Croatia

WPSA Croatian branch has co-organized XIV International Symposium ‘Poultry Days 2022’ (11-14 May 2022, Porec) which is held every two years in Croatia. The branch also organised the workshop ‘Quality System of Products of Animal Origin - Proven Quality’ where employees of the ministry of agriculture, three companies in charge of quality certification of table eggs and poultry meat, as well as several experts in the field from Croatian universities (members of the WPSA-Croatian Branch), actively participated. About 260 participants from 14 countries attended the symposium.

More than 10 members of the Croatian Branch actively participated in the 26^th World's Poultry Congress, held in Paris (7-10 August 2022). Three young scientists’ members of the Croatian Branch received scholarships to participate in the WPC in Paris (Mihael Janjecic, Dora Zurak and Lica Lozica).

In addition to the Poultry Days and the WPC in Paris, Croatian Branch members also participated in:

• 15^th conference on food safety and quality, Opatija, Croatia, May 23-25, 2022.
• Symposium on fodder with international participation ‘Krmiva 2022’, Opatija, Croatia, June 01-03, 2022
• The 7th Mediterranean Poultry Summit, Cordoba, Spain, June 08-10, 2022
• PSA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA, July 11-14, 2022
• 30th Animal Science Day, Zadar, Croatia, September 21-23, 2022
• 3rd Days of agriculture, fishing and forestry, Pula, Croatia, October 27-29, 2022

During 2022 there were also several tours of poultry farms in Croatia organized by the WPSA-Croatian Branch. With the members of the Section of table egg producers, we also organized a professional visit to poultry farms in Austria, which was made possible by the company Schropper, Drassmarkt-Gnas and the Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb.

Czech Republic

XI European Symposium on Poultry Welfare, Prague, Czech Republic, 26-29 June 2023

WG9 together with the Czech Branch of WPSA is actively working on the preparation on ESPW 2023.
The abstract submission deadline is 31 December 2022. Registration is open. Conference link: https://www.espw2023.org.

Martina Lichovnikova, Branch secretary

Indonesia

Commemorating of National Chicken and Egg Day 2022 in Indonesia

On Saturday 15 October 2022, WPSA- INDONESIA BRANCH and the Association of Indonesian Poultry Sciences Society (MIPI), held a Poultry Fashion Week at IPB University Baranangsiang Campus, Central Bogor District. The event was commemorating of National Chicken and Egg Day 2022 in Indonesia, and also used by MIPI to educate the public about the importance of consuming poultry products as an effort to prevent stunting. However, a different way of education was presented by MIPI on this occasion. Education is carried out through a fashion show with the concept of poultry.

The President of WPSA-INDONESIA BRANCH and MIPI, Prof. Arnold Parlindungan Sinurat, expressed his desire to make sure that the community is not malnourished or stunted, especially for children. One of the efforts is to promote the consumption of animal protein, eggs and chicken meat because the prices are relatively cheap.

Trobos Livestock Magazine: http://troboslivestock.com/detail-berita/2022/10/17/57/16430/serba-unggas-pfw-suguhkan-kreatifitas-di-bidang-fashion and https://www.radarbogor.id/2022/10/15/mipi-cegah-stunting-lewat-fashion-show/

Israel

Poultry Science one-day Symposium

The Israeli branch held a one-day symposium on November 10th, 2022, at the Volcani Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The symposium was opened with remarks in memory of Prof. Yoram Weisman, former head of the poultry diseases division of the Kimron Veterinary Institute, who recently passed away.

The symposium focused on the following topics:

• Reovirus evolution in Israel between 2015-2022.
• Enterococcus Cecorum: ‘Rising star’ in the broiler morbidity in Israel.
• Avian flu in Europe: Immediate threat for Israel?
• New technologies for pasture chicken rearing: Family farming in Italy.
• Challenges in the transition of raising non-cage layers:
  • Pullet rearing, performance and typical diseases

Eighty participants from all disciplines of the Israel poultry sector took part: academia and research institutes, poultry producers, veterinary services, extension service, and commercial companies serving the industry.

Yitzhak Malka, Secretary - WPSA Israel Branch

Italy

On November 17, 2022, during an official ceremony with the Rector of the University of Bologna, the International Poultry Hall of Fame plaque was presented to Prof Achille Franchini. Prof Franchini could not attend WPC2022 to receive the award (https://magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2022/11/17/il-professor-achille-franchini-nominato-membro-della-international-poultry-hall-of-fame).

The Italian Branch of WPSA is organizing the 23rd edition of European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN) in the city of Rimini, an ideal place for the ESPN, with modern as well as eco-friendly.  Prominent invited speakers from countries across the world already confirmed their participation. They will address emerging issues on poultry nutrition and feeding. Preliminary programme is now available on the Symposium website.

Special reduced registration fees are offered for WPSA members and students (early bird registration ends on March 12^th, 2023). More details are available at the Symposia website: https://www.espn2023.eu/.

Massimiliano Petracci, Secretary, Italian Branch of WPSA

Japan

The 2022 Autumn Meeting of Japan Poultry Science Association (JPSA) was held online (web) style on Saturday, September 17 from 9am to 5pm. The JPSA Autumn meeting was hosted by Tokyo University of Agriculture. The meeting included 30 original research presentations, a general meeting, and an online seminar conducted by the Young Members' Executive Committee of JPSA. Although the meeting was an online style, it was a great success where more than 100 members joined it.

The Young Members' Executive Committee of JPSA held a seminar titled ‘Patent Strategies for Poultry Researchers - Academia and Corporate Perspectives’. In this seminar, Prof. Hideo Nagai, Patent Attorney, Office of Academic and Social Cooperation at Hiroshima University, lectured on comparison of trends and strategies for patent applications in the poultry sector between academia and industry. During the seminar, very useful information was provided, and nice discussions were held.

The special lecture titled ‘Challenges and Issues in the Poultry Industry’ was also held. Dr Atsushi Tajima, former President of JPSA. He talked about the challenges and issues to be resolved for the further development of the poultry industry in Japan.

The 2023 Spring Meeting of JPSA will be held with online style on March 28 and 29, 2023. The meeting will include original research presentations and a general meeting. In addition, some award ceremonies of 2022 will also be held. Moreover, a public symposium by volunteers in JPSA will be held in the afternoon on March 28, 2023. The details of meeting and symposium will be soon announced on the JPSA web site (https://jpn-psa.jp/en/meeting-information/). JPSA will welcome a wide participation over the globe. It is also welcoming original research presentations in English.

The Journal of Poultry Science (JPS), the official scientific journal of JPSA, obtained the Impact Factor of 1.768 (2021 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics). The JPS is also a member of PubMed Central (PMC), and the articles of the journal can be accessed through PubMed search engine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/3725/). Moreover, JPS is available on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) database (https://doaj.org/toc/1349-0486).

JPSA welcomes the submission of original research articles and review papers to the JPS using the following website: https://jpn-psa.jp/en/jps-en/. Free access to download the full-published articles in the JPS is available on J-Stage (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jpsa), which provides an excellent opportunity for all to access the full published articles.

JPSA would like to contribute to the Poultry Science in Japan and over the globe by enhancing the international activities with the members from different countries. Thus, JPSA has a membership category for foreign citizens residing abroad as ‘Special International Member’. The page charges to publish their papers in the JPS will be set at a membership price. JPSA invariably welcomes new members from all over the world. Please visit JPSA website (http://jpn-psa.jp/?lang=en) for further information.

Naoki Goto, Secretary of WPSA Japan Branch

Korea Republic

The 2022 Annual meeting and symposium of the Korean Society of Poultry Science (KSPS) was held in Daejeon on November 3-4. There were 6 invited speakers, including 3 new poultry scientists, and 72 papers were presented by oral and poster presentations. In the General meeting, Professor Hyung-Kwan Jang of Chonbuk National University was elected as the new president of KSPS for next year.

Dr Bong-Guk Oh, honorary professor at Seoul National University passed away on September 1, 2022, at the age of 97. Professor Oh made outstanding achievements in poultry breeding and was a pioneer in the development of poultry industry in Korea. Academia and industry will always keep him in grateful and honourable memory.

Ji-hyuk Kim, Secretary of WPSA Korean Branch

Mexico

The 2nd International Poultry Layers meeting ANECA, co-sponsored by WPSA, was held 17-18 November 2022. It was very successful, and we owe a part of this to the WPSA for the co-sponsored support.

Attendants

We had 110 attendants to this meeting, little more than expected. The attendants included:

• 15 Students, all with WPSA sponsorship without paying the access fee.
• 16 Speakers
• 32 Field Poultry Vets
• 40 Industry Poultry Vets
• 7 Committee Members

Scientific programme

We had a complete Scientific Programme with speakers around the globe: USA, Canada, Panamá, Spain and Mexico. One speaker was sponsored by WPSA. Thank you again for this.

Papers

For this meeting, we had 8 papers. Most of them were students. Also we had the Awards for the 3 best presenting papers (also sponsored by the WPSA).

The meeting was very successful and will be held every 2 years.

Dr Victoria Bowes talking about Avian Influenza in Layers	The three Award winners, Elein (Scientific Committee member) and Miguel Casillas.

New Zealand

The New Zealand Branch is organising the New Zealand Poultry Industry Conference in Nelson (Rutherford Hotel) on 22^nd and 23^rd of March 2023. This will be the first face-to face conference after the COVID19 pandemic.

Sri Lanka

From the inception of Sri Lanka Branch of World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA-SL) in 1995, the organization has contributed to elevate the poultry sector of Sri Lanka from that of back yard farming into integrated poultry operations.

It was a challenging tenure for us to achieve the organizational objectives amidst the prevailed economic situation in the country and the poultry sector. Thus, WPSA-SL had to work very closely with the industry and the state sector to support the poultry sector and to address these issues.

• WPSA-SL actively participated in series of discussions on scientific perspectives with responsible state organizations in resolving these issues faced by the poultry industry

• The association participated in few media conferences to make public aware on the crisis scenario and possible scarcity of eggs in 2023.

WPSA-SL conducted its routine activities lined up with its objectives: 

• Three webinars were held under the series of “Strategic Approaches to overcome Emerging Challenges for the Sri Lankan Poultry Industry”.

• Two seminars were carried out in Colombo on the theme of “Benefits of Protein for Healthy Lifestyle (with special reference to Eggs)” to celebrate the World Egg Day 2022 on 13 & 14^t October 2022.

President of WPSA-SL delivering the welcome speech at the Seminar

• A Social media campaign was conducted in educating the public on nutritive values of poultry products.

• Egg donations were made to needy pregnant mothers who were visiting state maternity clinics in order to make aware the society on the importance of egg consumption for elimination of malnutrition.

• Two articles were published in international magazines on the contribution of WPSA-SL for sustainability of the poultry sector during the ongoing economic crisis.

• Annual scientific sessions of the WPSA-SL were held on 11 November 2022 in Colombo, under the theme of ‘Application of Scientific Knowledge for Resilience of Poultry Industry in Sri Lanka’.

• Annual industrial evening was also held on 11 November 2022. This year’s discussion at this evening was mainly focused on export promotion of poultry products.

Dr Krishan Dulanga, Secretary- World’s Poultry Science Association, Sri Lanka Branch 

United Kingdom

It’s not quite the end of 2022 but the U.K. Branch are well into the planning of the 2023 annual meeting.

Already set are the dates — 29th-30th March — and the venue, which is the International Conference Centre in Birmingham. This city-centre location has been chosen for its transport links and range of accommodation options.

As in previous years, the Branch’s Spring Meeting is organized in conjunction with the British Society of Animal Production. This long-standing cooperation between the two associations offers synergies for the increasing number of U.K.-based scientists working with poultry and other livestock species.

Right now, the Programme Committee is making its final selection from submitted abstracts to create the most topical, interesting and attractive programme.

Among the regular highlights of these meetings is the Gordon Memorial Lecture, commemorating the life of Dr R.F. Gordon and his contribution to veterinary science and the poultry industry at the Houghton Poultry Research Station. Established after Dr Gordon’s death in 1981, the Robert Fraser Gordon Memorial Trust is a charity established to enable an annual lecture to be given in his name.

Invited to give the lecture in 2023 is Professor Ian Brown, OBE. He is Head of the Virology Department at the Animal and Plant Health Agency in Weybridge, and Director of the OIE/FAO International Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease.

In this year when the number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza has never been higher or more widespread, the subject of Professor Brown’s lecture could hardly be more appropriate: ‘A paradigm shift in high pathogenicity avian influenza and perspectives for the future’.

The Gordon Memorial Lecture is currently in the programme for Wednesday 29th March, 17:00 to 18:00, and it will be followed by a reception.

All being well, the Branch’s 2023 Spring Meeting will be held exclusively in person, allowing delegates to take advantage of the many networking opportunities included in the programme.

Jackie Linden, WPSA UK Branch Secretary

France

The officers of the branch’s board met by video conference on 25 September 2020. The next meeting will take place in December 2020. See http://wpsa.fr/qui-sommes-nous/conseil-administration

The 2021 general assembly of WPSA-France will take place online 18 March 2021, during a scientific session called ‘WPSA Thursday’ dedicated to the topic ‘Resilience of the poultry production chain following one year of COVID-19’.

The Branch renews its call to all members for their participation in WPC2021 in Paris on 8-12 August 2021, and for the preparation for this event, which will also mark the centenary of WPSAs World Poultry Congresses.

Christophe Bostvironnois, President, and Michel Duclos, secretary WPSA France 

Germany

Due to the ongoing pandemic, we will hold our annual Spring Conference for the German Branch in a digital format on March 19, 2021. Please make a note of this on your calendar.

The XII European Symposium on Poultry Genetics is being planned for Hannover, 08 – 11, 2022. Information will follow.

Inga Tiemann, Secretary, Germany Branch

Italy

The next annual national meeting will be organized in conjunction with the 2021 edition of FIERAVICOLA which will be held at the Rimini Expo Centre from 4 to 6 May. General information on the International Poultry Exhibition is available on the website: https://www.fieravicola.com/en/.

The Italian Branch will host the 23rd edition of European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN) which will be held at the Palacongressi of Rimini (Italy) from 5 to 8 September, 2022. The city of Rimini, is an ideal place for the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition and the modern as well as eco-friendly Venue is the perfect stage for the event. Many attendees including both poultry research scientists and practitioners, leading speakers from across the world joining together to explore the past, share the present and helping to forge the future of poultry meat science. More details are already available at the Symposia website: https://www.espn2022.eu/.

Massimiliano Petracci, Secretary, Italian Branch of WPSA

Japan

The 2021 Spring Meeting of the Japan Poultry Science Association (JPSA) will be held in online (web) style. All activities during the meeting, including presentations of original research findings, a general meeting, and the council meeting, will be organised on the web at the end of March. Details will be announced soon on the JPSA web site (https://jpn-psa.jp/). In the meantime, registration for the presentations of original research findings will be started at the beginning of January 2021, and the deadline will be January 26th, 2021. The details for the registration will also be informed via the JPSA web site.

The Journal of Poultry Science (JPS - the official journal of JPSA, IF: 0.880), the official scientific journal published by JPSA, became a member of PubMed Central (PMC), and articles published in the journal can now be accessed through the PubMed search engine. We welcome the contribution of original research articles and reviews to the JPS using the following web site: https://jpn-psa.jp/en/jps-en/. Free access to download the full-published articles in JPS is available on J-Stage (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jpsa), which provides an excellent opportunity for all to access the published articles.

JPSA would like to contribute not only to poultry science in Japan, but all over the world by enhancing activities with members from other countries. Thus, JPSA has a membership category for foreign citizens residing abroad as ‘Special International Member’. The page charges for publishing their papers in the JPS will be set at the regular membership price. JPSA welcomes new members from all over the world. Please visit the JPSA website (http://jpn-psa.jp/?lang=en) for further information.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a tough situation in the world, but JPSA hopes things will get better soon. Please take good care of yourself!

Naoki Goto, Secretary of WPSA Japan Branch

Russia

Scientific communication with industry: The VNITIP Federal Scientific Centre of the Russian Science Academy in Serguiev Posad, Moscow Region, recognises the importance of scientific communication with the industry and has a programme to encourage this effort. Every year more than 1000 experts from Russia and abroad attend lectures from leading scientists in poultry industry areas, exchange experiences and discuss innovations from local and foreign poultry science efforts in Ptitsegrad. All are welcome to attend the courses in Serguiev Posad.

Tatiana Vasilieva, Secretary

United Kingdom

New Opportunity: The GD Rosen Academic Career Advancement Award

The UK branch is pleased to announce a new Academic Career Advancement Award in memory of Professor Gordon D Rosen. Gordon contributed a highly logical and very descriptive approach to animal nutrition from the 1960s through to just a few years before his death in 2015. A full obituary for him is available in volume 71 of World’s Poultry Science Journal. He was an inspirational person whose curiosity and gently framed yet penetrating questions made him a legend. There is a generation of scientists influenced by his presence – always in the front row – of scientific meetings, and now his wife Vanda would like to encourage other scientists to develop their own inquisitiveness through this new award.

The GD Rosen Academic Career Advancement Award provides £2000 each year to fund an academic adventure. With this aim, the award is open in nature, while particularly encouraging people to become multidisciplinary in their approach to research. The award is open to UK branch members who are within their early career spanning from 2 years to 5 years post PhD viva. Examples of proposals might include a request to attend an academic conference (particularly one outside your core field), support for an educational tour of another country or global region, support to visit another institution to learn a new technique or approach, or support to publish a major research output in a journal requiring publication fees.

Proposal forms and conditions of the GD Rosen Award can be found on the WPSA-UK website.

Deadline for applications: 30^th January 2021