BIOSECURITY Flashcards
(12 cards)
The set of practices and measures that you put in place on your farm to minimize the risk to livestock and crops from any type of infectious or injurious agent
Biosecurity
➢ a disease or a biological, chemical, physical or radiological agent or factor that can cause harm.
Hazard/Threat
➢ is the potential that a chosen action will lead to an undesirable outcome
➢ is the likelihood of an undesirable event happening that involves a specific hazard or threat and has consequences
Risk
➢ actions and control measures that are put into place to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with biological agents and toxins.
Risk Mitigation
What are the five risk mitigation measures
- Elimination or substitution
- Engineering control
- Administrative control
- Practices and procedures
- Personal protective equipment
➢ preventing the introduction of a new pathogen to livestock premises
➢ increase the animal’s ability to resist disease
Bio-exclusion/External Biosecurity
➢ reduce the spread of disease among animals on premises already contaminated with a pathogen
➢ minimize the number of contacts that result in disease
Bio-management/Internal Biosecurity
➢ prevent the escape and spread of pathogens already present on animal premises in order to prevent spread to another population of animals
Biocontainment
➢ The application of barriers (physical barriers, temporal separation of activities, and procedures) to limit risk of pathogens from infected animals and from contaminated materials from entering an uninfected site or group of animals.
Segregation (Seg)
➢ Described as cleaning and washing to remove visible organic material, disinfecting and drying; all to reduce and/or inactivate pathogens
Sanitation (San)
➢ The actions taken to prevent the cross-contamination of uninfected animals by organizing the flow of animals, people and materials within a farm or a production system.
Flow Management (FM)
• While not a biosecurity principle protocol in itself, documentation is required to support, training and compliance with biosecurity
Records (R)
