Dr. Michèle Tixier-Boichard, WPSA President: “Better optimize than maximize”

Literally all continents are participating nowadays. Originally, mainly North America and European countries played the strongest part in WPSA. Over the years all other continents joined, which makes WPSA truly a pluriform and global organization.

• Indeed, poultry production has strongly increased in Asia. Of course, countries differ from each other. Hence, there’s not one solution for all.
• But there many similarities as well. That’s why sharing scientific knowledge is very useful for all countries, justifying the existence of WPSA.

It is a challenge for scientific research to find the right combination of approaches and disciplines to conduct trials and tackle problems like for infectious diseases.

Think of avian flu, which is threatening the poultry business on a global scale. There’s not one solution to eradicate the disease.

Instead, we must look at all factors and