Because of bird flu, more than 220,000 turkeys are slaughtered on three farms in Codla, the largest producer of this type of meat in Romania. In addition, according to the Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea, 100 tons of meat in the warehouse will be burned.

Images taken from a drone and published by brasov.net show the extent of the disaster. A few hundred meters from the turkey farms, excavators dug huge pits where the dead birds are dumped and have been working on the fire non-stop since the weekend when the first outbreak was discovered.

Three outbreaks of bird flu are at the Codlea zootechnical platform, and approximately 224,000 birds will be euthanized and buried, according to Brasov prefect Katalin Vasia, as quoted by brasov.net.

Agriculture Minister Petre Daea said on Tuesday on Digi 24 that he is waiting for the first conclusions of the epidemiological investigation launched in this case, saying that “there are many question marks about how this virus was able to enter the very center of the country”.

When asked if this affects the supply chain, given that it is a very large farm in Romania that supplies turkey meat to the stores, Petre Daea said: “Yes, of course it does and I know that in the warehouse as well there is a quantity of 100 tons. which are burning due to the fact that the doctors have come to this conclusion, and naturally to intervene so radically that we stop, as I said, the relevant outbreak and isolate the territory so that after 35 days the activity on this platform can be resumed very important that has p’ farms, and three of them were inhabited, and all three were infected with this damned virus.”

When asked if there was a scenario in which this farm was also to blame, the Minister of Agriculture replied: “No scenario is excluded and the specialists on the ground have the necessary technical and organizational skills to trace all possible paths that will lead us to a plausible conclusion , which should be used from this point on, and the measures to be taken in conditions where there is some error somewhere.’

Minister Daea added that he does not yet have information whether the birds from these farms have reached the market.

Between October 2021 and September 2022, Europe faced the most devastating bird flu wave in its history, with around 50 million birds killed on virus-infected farms.

Last November, Hungary detected several outbreaks of bird flu on farms in the east of the country, near the border with Romania.