Boehringer Ingelheim hosts Poultry Innovation Days in the ‘Heart of Europe’

Some of the most important messages heard during the conference touched on the company’s commitment to making a difference in the monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of poultry diseases as well as our solution-based offering which includes high-quality vaccines, onsite vaccination technology and services, and ongoing veterinary expertise.

The attendees shared the latest global trends, threats and opportunities as well as how technologies are changing the sector, and many other relevant topics. In addition, the event highlighted the company’s innovation strategy in the poultry industry, the fact that its people are one of the most important pillars inside the organization and that prevention and wellbeing truly matter to Boehringer Ingelheim.

“We are very proud to have hosted the 2018 Poultry Innovation Days and to show the largest sector key accounts that our company is well positioned with its people, product and services to help the poultry sector produce safe, affordable, abundant and sustainable quality poultry meat and eggs. Throughout those two days we’ve demonstrated that we are working actively on technology solutions which will bring better traceability, faster diagnostics and monitoring to the poultry industry. At Boehringer Ingelheim, we strongly believe that ‘Prevention Works’ and we want to shape the future of poultry health.”

Jerome Baudon, Head of Global Avian Strategic Business Unit

Did you know?

Key global trends impacting poultry production

• By 2030, the global population will require over 30 percent more animal protein than the current population today¹. This is expected to include increased consumption of chicken and eggs as an affordable and accessible “protein of choice.”
• There is an increasing threat to food security due to transboundary disease outbreaks, which can have broad economic, social and environmental impacts. The risk of infectious disease, including zoonotic diseases which spread between animals and humans, becomes greater as more people, animals, plants and agricultural products move across international borders.²
• Rising levels of resistance in bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi to antimicrobial drugs can undermine the ability to treat common infectious diseases in livestock, including poultry.²

A global leader in poultry disease prevention

Boehringer Ingelheim is the third largest provider of health solutions and services to the global poultry industry. The company is focused on disease prevention, through a solutions-based offering that includes high-quality poultry vaccines, onsite vaccination technology and services, and ongoing veterinary expertise. Boehringer Ingelheim produces more than 150 billion doses in 1,000 poultry vaccine presentations to protect birds against 20 different diseases worldwide.

References

1. FAO. How to feed the world in 2050. Forum discussion in 2009. United Nations: World Population Prospects, 2015 Revision.
2. FAO. 2017. The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges. Rome.