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Poultry Industry Calendar of Events
2022
JAN 18-20 – VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition 2022, Thailand, www.victamasia.com
JAN 25-27 – International Production & Processing Expo, Atlanta US, www. ippexpo.org
MAR 30 - APR 1 – 7th International Conference on Poultry Intestinal Health, Columbia, www.ihsig.com
MAY 10-11 – British Pig & Poultry Fair, Stoneleigh UK, pigandpoultry.org.uk
MAY 15-17 – Poultry Information Exchange and Australasian Milling Conference (PIX/AMC), www.pixamc. com.au
MAY 31 - JUN 2 – VIV Europe 2022, Netherlands, viveurope.nl
NOV 8-10 – European Symposium on Poultry Genetics, Hannover Germany, www.espg2022.org
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Dr Jodi Courtice of McLean Farms in Queensland. Franko Pirovic from Pirovic Family Farms in NSW.
Egg industry awards announced
TWO Australians who have made significant contributions to egg production have been awarded the inaugural Egg Farmers of Austral- ia industry recognition awards.
• Queensland poultry vet Dr Jodi Courtice was named the Egg Farmers of Australia Young Egg Industry Achiever of the Year.
vaccine, including over- seeing the commercial application of trials that are currently in their final stages.
paign to fight for farmers through a nationally coor- dinated approach.
The winners were:
Franko Pirovic is the managing director of Pirovic Family Farms in NSW and has been in- volved in producing eggs for more than 56 years.
Many of his egg indus- try peers comment that a great debt of gratitude is owed to Mr Pirovic for his leadership on that issue.
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• NSW egg farming stalwart Franko Pirovic received the Egg Farm- ers of Australia Industry Leader Excellence Award for service to the egg in- dustry.
The awards aim to rec- ognise this work.
Her skills address health and production issues of more than a million hens across cage, barn and free range systems.
Significantly, Mr Pirovic makes time to en- gage with other egg farm- ers across Australia on important agri-political issues.
Ten finalists from West- ern Australia, South Aus- tralia, NSW, Queensland and Victoria were short listed for both awards – judged by Peter Bedwell of Poultry Digest and Rowan McMonnies from Australian Eggs.
The two awards were announced at the Egg Farmers of Australia An- nual General Meeting on November 9.
Commercial egg farm- ers produce 17.9 million eggs daily for domestic consumption in Australia.
Dr Courtice has been a key contributor in pio- neering the world’s first successful spotty liver
In 2015, when uncer- tainty gripped the free- range egg industry and threatened to cripple fam- ily farms, he led a cam-
We look forward to next year’s awards and seeing the great work of our farmers and industry associates recognised.
by MELINDA HASHIMOTO CEO
Aussie egg farmers and the people they employ – farm staff, hatchery crews and vets – all work very hard to maintain a con- sistent and clean supply of fresh eggs for Australian families.
Dr Jodi Courtice is an egg industry veterinar- ian employed by McLean Farms at Pittsworth in Queensland.
Under his leadership, Pirovic has grown into a national business and Mr Pirovic designed and built the farms’ state-of-the-art egg packing facilities.
They also mentioned that without him, Egg Farmers of Australia would not exist as a lobby group in its current form.
Australians confused about refreezing chooks
* from P1
When defrosting
contact with anything already cooked or any- thing that will be eaten raw, such as your salad ingredients.”
chicken meat, it is very important that it is de- frosted in the fridge below 5C, and it is best to store defrost- ing meat on the lowest shelf in the fridge.
Concerningly, 67 per- cent of 18 to 24-year- olds think it is fine to refreeze chicken that has been defrosted on the bench.
“If you defrost your chicken meat on the kitchen bench and then refreeze it, you’ll be storing any bacteria that may have multi- plied during thawing at room temperature and these can start growing again next time you de- frost it!” Dr Kite said.
The good news is that 83 percent of re- spondents to the FSIC survey correctly un- derstood that chicken shouldn’t be refrozen if it’s been defrosted on the benchtop.
“And the more bac- teria that are present, the greater the risk that someone might get sick. “Thorough cooking will destroy the bacteria though, so it is important to always ensure that chicken meat is cooked through, and that raw meat doesn’t come into
And 93 percent of re- spondents over 65 got this right.
For more chicken and food safety advice, visit the ACMF and Food Safety Informa- tion Council websites.
Visit facts.chicken. org.au for more myth- busting about chicken meat production in Australia.
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