87,584,830 tons of poultry meat was produced in 2007. The

biggest producers are the United States, the People's Republic

of China and Brazil. 82% of poultry meat in the United States is chicken

meat and 17% is turkey meat. In the People's Republic of China, 71% of poultry meat

is chicken meat, 15% is duck meat and 14% is goose and guinea fowl meat.  In Brazil,

97% of poultry meat is chicken meat.

40% of the world's egg production comes from China. 

The EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) considers the following problems as serious:

Conventional laying battery 

low bone strength and bone fractures during depopulation 

no possibility for elementary behaviours 

Small furnished cages 

Feather pecking and cannibalism in flocks where the beaks are not secured

Limited scope for exercising elementary behaviours

Free range breeding

Bone fractures during the laying 

Feather pecking and cannibalism in flocks where the beaks are not secured

high risk of parasitic diseases 

More than 75% of egg-laying hens are kept in cages in Europe.

The cost of preventive treatment against diseases and epidemics increases with the density of livestock. The global competition is increasing dramatically, since many emerging countries can produce more cheaply unhindered by the European standards on livestock husbandry.

In addition to this, there is the ever-growing desire of consumers to be able to buy healthy meat. The resentment to meat that is contaminated with chemicals and drugs

is constantly growing.

The preventive or simultaneous treatment of animals with CyberScan could generate significant economic benefits. The description of the CyberScan system

applies to all living things.