Voluntary participation in HACCP-type programs reduces the risk of marketing eggs contaminated with Salmonella enteritidis and maintains consumer confidence in egg products.
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This manual provides educational support for the Pennsylvania Egg Quality Assurance Program certification training and enhancing food safety...
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Biosecurity is key to preventing and reducing disease risk, including avian influenza.
Enforce biosecurity basics including isolation, flow control, sanitation and cleaning and disinfection.
Keep biosecurity practices strict, accessible and simple.
Know common biosecurity breaks.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza...
By Abby Neu Schuft, Extension Educator
NPIP Biosecurity Plan Audits
The count-down has begun for producers to complete their first NPIP Biosecurity Plan Audit. Each eligible producer needs to have their first audit complete by September 2020. There are many poultry...
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The threat of a serious disease outbreak such as avian influenza (AI) or infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) should raise every backyard poultry owner’s awareness of the importance of having and maintaining a strong biosecurity program. Biosecurity means...
Source: Poultryhealthtoday.com
Successful Salmonella control throughout live poultry production requires an integrated effort, attention to detail and careful follow-through to help processing plants meet more stringent USDA standards, said poultry health experts at a recent food-safety news conference.
“Everyone in live...
Since the end of 2019, there have been reports of avian influenza in several European countries, including Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The virus detected in these outbreaks is a highly pathogenic form of the H5 influenza virus. According to...
Last Modified: Feb 8, 2019
What is Biosecurity?
Biosecurity refers to everything that’s done to keep diseases and the pathogens that carry them – viruses, bacteria, funguses, parasites and other microorganisms – away from birds, property, and people. This includes:
Structural...
Biosecurity means protecting your birds by preventing disease from entering your farm, and protecting others by preventing disease from leaving your farm.
Some diseases are unapparent, and others can kill all of your birds. Developing a good biosecurity plan and...
Implementing any of these suggestions will reduce the risk of disease entry. Each additional step implemented will further reduce biosecurity risks.
Restrict entry to essential personnel and record entry.
Provide boots and coveralls for staff and visitors for each...
Biosecurity measures are in place to protect poultry flocks from transmissible infections — but how effective are they really? Researchers in Quebec and Ontario evaluated biosecurity measures in lab and field conditions— including the contamination occurring when procedures are...