Given the importance of antimicrobials to the poultry sector, good practices are indeed necessary to prevent AMR. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

On 22 November 2022, the director general of animal husbandry and animal health at the Agriculture Ministry Nasrullah held a discussion focusing on the significance of controlling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a means of ensuring food safety and security

The agreement was signed by the MVP executive director, Rashidah Ibrahim and TDN president director, David Hoo. (Image source: MVP)

Malaysian Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals (MVP) has appointed PT. Tri Dinamika Nusantara (TDN) as an exclusive distributor for Indonesian market

Dr Abdul Muhaimin is the head of corporate marketing at Malaysian Vaccines & Pharmaceuticals. (Image Source: Malaysian Vaccines & Pharmaceuticals)

Along with feed quality, poultry health is also one among the many important factors that determine efficient poultry production. Using poultry vaccines can thus help protect flocks from deadly, contagious poultry diseases such as fowl pox, newcastle disease and infectious bronchitis. Abdul Muhaimin, Head of Corporate Marketing Division, Malaysian Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals (MVP) provides an insight into the latest vaccine developed by the company, their recovery from the scars that the Covid-19 pandemic had left on their business as well as the current post-pandemic market trends.

UPM 93273 selected for production of intermediate-plus IBD vaccine (Image source: Malaysian Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals)

To date, all the IBDV isolated in Malaysia are characterised as the vvIBDV, using both the conventional and molecular techniques. Hence, this could explain the failure of the imported IBD vaccines to confer full protection against the disease. This is because the imported vaccines used are developed using the classical strain of IBDV, which is different from the strains of IBDV of the field challenged