Safety guidelines
How to avoid communicable diseases from poultry
1) Consumers
- Ensure poultry and poultryrelated products are cooked thoroughly
- Ensure that eggshells are clean ？ wash them thoroughly before cooking
- Pick the newest eggs possible when shopping
2) Chicken butchers
- Avoid purchasing fowl that appear lethargic, or have nasal mucus,
swollen eyes or diarrhoea
- Do not keep all fowl for slaughter in the same enclosure
- Wear protective plastic gowns or aprons
- Wash your hands and body thoroughly with soap and water following
the slaughter
- Change clothes immediately after the slaughter and wash those
clothes separately
- If you develop symptoms such as a fever, headaches or shivers,
see a doctor immediately and declare your occupation
