Background papers

Risks and Challenges for Poultry Production

• Risks associated with poultry production systems
• Poultry production and the environment – a review
• Do old and new forms of poultry go together?
• OIE standards and guidelines related to trade and poultry diseases
• Animal welfare in poultry production systems:
  Impact of European Union standards on world trade
• Zoonotic desease risks and socioeconomic impacts of industrial poultry production: review of the experience with contract growing in the United States of America
• Response of the Thai poultry industry to highly pathogenic avian influenza
• Food-safety concerns in the poultry sector of developing countries
• Risks caused by bio-aerosols in poultry houses
• Veterinary services for poultry production
• Summary of Discussions