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Marketing experts at the Virginia Department of Agriculture say poultry prices should remain steady despite the number of chickens and turkeys that have been destroyed due to avian flu. Product promotion spokesman Anna Atkins says the number of birds represent a small percentage of the state’s annual production.
. .^owever, ‘ Atkins \ stressed that no birds in-1 fetted with the disease are being marketed. Diseased birds are destroyed and no meat, eggs or related products from their flocks are permitted to be sold. All poultry products continue to be inspected under state and federal laws. Atkins said the safeguards will protect the public from coming into contact with the avian flu.
However, Atkins added that avian influenza is a dis
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