with the country. A total of 236 people around the world were infected with the avian influenza H5NI. Of them, 138 died.
In India, no case of human infection was reported. No fresh avian flu outbreaks have been reported in the last three months since the completion of the culling, cleaning and sanitizing process at the places where the disease surfaced.
Poultry samples are still being tested to ensure that there is no fresh outbreak as had happened in Thailand, where the disease re-surfaced after 260 days of being free of it.
"Though OIE does not require it, we will be putting all the data of testing of all suspected cases on our website as a confidence building measure for the trading community. It will be like an international document so that there is no backtracking," Bandopadhyay said.
India, which largely exports table and hatching eggs, hardly exported any poultry products in the last six months since avian flu was first notified in the country.
This has been a big setback for the poultry industry, which had witnessed good growth for the past eight years. Last year, table eggs alone accounted for Rs.3.8 billion of the Rs.6.2-billion-worth poultry product exports.
Apart from fresh eggs for consumption, India exports hatching eggs, small quantities of chicken meat and the rest as value added products.
"Barring Oman, which continued to import hatching eggs from India, there has been hardly any export of eggs and poultry products for the last six months," said Singh of NECC.
"Once OIE is notified that India is avian flu-free, we will be able to meet the demand not only in the Middle East but in Africa that requires large quantities of hatching eggs. For the domestic market, which forms the bulk of our sales, we are continuing with our confidence building measures," Singh added.
(Source: IANS)
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