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1
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biosecurity

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• Management practices that reduce the opportunity for infectious agents to gain access to, or spread within, an animal production unit.
• Ongoing pressure on agriculture to reduce antimicrobial usage has
led to increased emphasis on disease prevention and the role of biosecurity.

2
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biosecurity triangle

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diagnostic tests-vaccinations-bio-security

3
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why the concern

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• Foreign and emerging disease issues
• Globalization of agriculture
• Increased public concern over food safety
• Farms are less isolated
• Farm inputs coming from farther away sometimes other
countries.
• FAD such as: FMD, BSE, AI, and Newcastle disease have
brought world concerns closer to the local farm/ranch level.

4
Q

level 1

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protect against diseases endemic to the local environment

5
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level 2

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secure against foreign or exotic diseases

6
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who is concerned with it

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  • Neighbors and Friends
  • Agribusiness and Service representatives
  • Veterinarians
  • Inspectors/regulatory personnel
  • Rendering
  • Custom manure/biosolids haulers and applicators.
  • Any Visitor
7
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assessing visitor risk

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• Place restricted entry notices on the doors to
animal facilities.
• Separate visitor and farm vehicle parking
•All visitors enter at one point. Keep a log.
•Know where farms visitors may have been to prior
to your farm
•Restrict access to animal facilities to essential
visitors only

8
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reduce exposure

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• Supply clean clothing, boots, or covers
• Do not allow foods of ANIMAL ORIGIN to be brought on
premises
• Provide containers to properly dispose of dirty clothing and
equipment.
• Always wash hands after contacting animals
• Foot bath with scrub brush at entrance to each animal
facility. (clean daily)
• Clean to dirty. Handle sick animals last.
• Clean and disinfect all equipment before use on premise
• Ensure parameter control
• Control human traffic
• Control animal traffic
• Add known-status animals
• Isolate all new additions
• Isolate diseased animals
• Vector and vermin control
• Ensure pasture and paddock management
• Parasite control
• Practice waste management
• Appropriate carcass disposal

9
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waste management

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  • Biohazard waste
  • Medical waste
  • Wastes of environmental concern
  • Sharps
  • Clothing
  • Gloves
  • Other PPE
10
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animal carcass disposal

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  • Burial
  • Mass depopulation
  • Environmental concerns
  • Local jurisdictions
  • Rendering
  • Carcass storage concerns
  • Transport concerns
  • Composting
  • Land available?
  • Disease spread?
  • Incineration
  • Costly
  • Disease spread?
11
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concerns with manure

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  • Many important diseases are transmitted by manure and clothing and equipment contaminated by manure.
  • Bacterial
  • Salmonella, E. coli, Johne’s disease, Tuberculosis
  • Viral
  • Hog cholera, FMD, BVD
  • Protozoal
  • Coccidiosis, cryptosporidiosis
  • Parasitic
  • Ascariasis, sarcocystosis.
12
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manure haulers and rendering

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•Hiring custom haulers/renderers increases potential
spread of disease between farms
•Wash all exterior surfaces of manure handling
equipment; check all are visibly free of organic
matter prior to farm entry.
•Consider on property lagoons, digestors.
•Manure recycling strategies
• Disease spread (compost)
• Fertilize fields
• Source of energy production

13
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protecting against infection

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  • Vaccination
  • Laboratory testing
  • On-premise surveillance
  • Single in and out
  • House according to disease status
  • Cleaning
  • Disinfection
  • All in all out
14
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people managment

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  • Employees
  • PPE
  • Dedicated clothing
  • Shower facilities
  • Work clean to dirty
  • Visitors and vendors
  • Controlled access
  • PPE
15
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animal identification

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•Electronic identification : birth to consumption
•Verification of records
•Tracking for epidemiological purposes,
disease outbreaks.

16
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records

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•Personnel training programs
•Source, quality and disposition of all products
animals, feeds, forages, equipment and
materials
•Medical and veterinary procedures and
products
•People movement
17
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what does biosecurity provide

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•Essential component of many on-farm
safety programs
•Greater consumer acceptability of the
quality and safety of the food supply
•Healthy animals that are more productive
•Improved animal welfare and well-being
•Improved efficiency and profitability for the
farmer.