Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says the food industry is making adjustments to maintain supplies of poultry and eggs in the face of a large outbreak of avian flu in Canada and around the world.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says this has been an unprecedented year globally for avian flu, or bird flu as it's also known.
"Poultry and egg production in Canada are supply managed and there are mechanisms in place that modelling boards can deploy to give them the flexibility to adjust to the kind of disruption that we are talking right now," said Donald Boucher, director general of sector development with Agri-Food Canada.
"I think this is, in more recent memory, one of the larger number of cases in multiple provinces of avian influenza and the first time that we've had H5N1," said Dr. Mary Jane Ireland, chief veterinary officer.
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