SWEDEN TO CULL 340,000 HENS AFTER SALMONELLA STRAIN FOUND

Tue 15 August 2023:

CA Cedergrens, Sweden’s largest egg producer, has been affected with salmonella yet again. According to a Swedish Board of Agriculture decision, two stables must be cleaned, and 340,000 hens must be culled.

CA Cedergrens, an egg producer near Fliseryd, accounts for little under a fifth of the Swedish egg market, but has been hit by salmonella on many times this year.

In January, 160,000 hens were culled, followed by another 160,000. After the bacterium was identified again at the packaging plant in April, all deliveries of consumption eggs were halted.

Since April, there have been no positive tests. According to rjan Johansson, infection control officer at the Swedish Agency for Agriculture, two stables were positive last week.

The Swedish Agricultural Agency ruled on August 10th that all of the poultry in the two affected barns must now be euthanized – this time around 340,000 hens, as Barometer reported first.

The authorities believe it is the same genetic strain that was responsible for past outbreaks.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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