AVPA

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Contents 1 About AVPA 2 Resources 3 Contact AVPA 4 External links

The Australasian Veterinary Poultry Association Limited (AVPA) is a professional body dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in poultry disease and husbandry.

• The AVPA (ACN 128 211 281) incorporates a Poultry Special Interest Group of the Australian Veterinary Association.
• AVPA Membership is available to individuals and groups working in or interested in any veterinary aspect of poultry.

• Next AVPA Meeting - Christchurch, New Zealand, October 14-15, 2010. See AVPA Conferences for more information.

About AVPA

The AVPA was formed about four decades ago. The goal was to provide a forum where veterinarians working with poultry in Australia could meet and exchange views. It was also intended to represent the health and food safety issues of the poultry industry to government and industry research bodies. It was quickly realised that the model of a professional association open only to veterinarians was not useful in such a small industry and one with a particular need for a close relationship with the research community. As a result, in the 1970s membership became available to anyone with an interest in poultry health and the association prospered. New Zealand always had a few members and that was recognised in the recent change from Australian to Australasian.

As much as anything, membership of AVPA allows the building of relationships across the wider community of people with an interest in poultry health. AgVet suppliers and vaccine manufacturers not only support us financially, but become part of the groups and are available to members for consultations about their products and to advise future products we may need.

Researchers find the interaction with industry valuable as a feedback mechanism and to keep in touch with the real world of poultry production. This, in turn, can help them make applications for funding that are more relevant and have a better chance of success.

For government and industry bodies, membership permits an efficient way of tapping into the industry for information and also to disseminate their point of view.

And finally, for the clinicians it is a forum to communicate with one another, build relationships of friendship and cooperation, discuss problems and coordinate an industry approach and to interact backwards into the research community and supplier as a resource of technical knowledge.

We welcome membership applications from anyone with an interest in poultry health and they will find a friendly and lively group and are certain to enjoy the two scientific meetings we run each year.

Resources

• AVPA Policy: Welfare of poultry in periurban environments - Keeping birds in periurban areas
• Meeting Report: FAO/WHO Technical Meeting on Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken meat (Rome, 4-8 May, 2009) (PDF:550KB)
• Meeting Report: Development of a National Regulatory Framework for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals - Report of a meeting between Ben Wells and the consultants Mr. Roger Rose and Nick Sheppard
• Article: Salmonella control: protecting eggs and people - A European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) study recently showed that the percentage of layer flocks infected with Salmonella is still very high in some countries. (WorldPoultry.net) (PDF:170KB)
• AVPA Conferences - Including proceedings

Contact AVPA

Office Bearers

• Secretary - Branko Karaconji

Phone: 0448 055 159

Email: karacob@fortdodge.com.au

• Acting President - Ben Wells

• Vice President - Peter Groves

• Treasurer - Darryl Meaney

Convenors

• Theraputics - Tim Wilson

• Importation - George Arzey

• Welfare - Greg Cronin

• Editor, Dander - Grant Richards

• WVPA Bureau Councilor - Trevor Bagust

• SIG President - Peter Groves

• SIG Secretary/Treasurer - Simon Robinson

External links

• www.avpa.asn.au can be used as an alternative URL or web address for this page (it redirects to this page)
• Australian Veterinary Association (AVA)