The Poultry Handling and Transportation Quality Assurance (PHTQA) Certification website, funded through a grant from USDA and AICAPS and offered by Penn State is now available for viewing from the website: poultryhandling.org. A manual version in Spanish will also be published.

The manual covers animal welfare, safety, biosecurity and disease prevention for poultry transporters and live haul crews. Actual training will commence in 2011.

Attendees will be required to be tested on at the end of the training to become certified.
Please check back to website as training dates will be scheduled.

Please note that the 6th Annual AICAP Meeting has been cancelled and will be re-scheduled at a later time. We will keep you posted. Contact Theresa Wolter via email at aicap@umd.edu or by phone at (301) 314-6287 for further information.

The AICAP March 2009 Newsletter is now available for download at www.aicap.umd.edu. There is important information about the diagnostic tools being developed by AICAP investigators, check it out. Please also read the call for proposals on education/training projects. Thanks!