Instant Insights

Chapter 1 - On-farm strategies for preventing pig diseases: improving biosecurity: Jeroen Dewulf and Dominiek Maes, Ghent University, Belgium;

1 Introduction

2 What is biosecurity?

3 External biosecurity measures

4 Internal biosecurity measures

5 Measuring biosecurity

6 Conclusion

7 References

Chapter 2 - Disease identification and management on the pig farm: Dominiek Maes, Jeroen Dewulf, Filip Boyen and Freddy Haesebrouck, Ghent University, Belgium;

1 Introduction

2 Disease identification

3 Disease management and control: overview

4 External biosecurity

5 Internal biosecurity

6 Vaccination and antimicrobial medication

7 Future trends in diagnostics and disease monitoring and control

8 Conclusion

9 Where to look for further information

10 References

Chapter 3 - Improving biosecurity in poultry flocks: Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt and Manon Racicot, Universit© de Montr©al, Canada; and Mattias Delpont, cole Nationale V©t©rinaire de Toulouse, France;

1 Introduction

2 Reducing sources of contamination: cleaning and disinfection of poultry barns

3 Reducing sources of contamination: equipment and vehicles

4 Reducing sources of contamination: water and feed hygiene

5 Reducing sources of contamination: insect, mite and rodent pests, wild birds and pets

6 Reducing sources of contamination: manure, litter and dead birds

7 Separating healthy birds from sources of contamination: zoning production sites

8 Separating healthy birds from sources of contamination: hatchery

9 Separating healthy birds from sources of contamination: regional biosecurity

10 Biosecurity compliance

11 The economics of biosecurity

12 Conclusion and future trends

13 Where to look for further information

14 References

Chapter 4 - Food safety management on farms producing beef: Peter Paulsen, Frans J. M. Smulders and Friederike Hilbert, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria;

1 Introduction

2 Good farming practices and biosecurity for beef cattle farms

3 Animal handling and animal welfare

4 Clean cattle policy

5 From GFP to pre-harvest food safety management: the case of E. coli O157

6 Quality assurance programmes for beef production

7 Summary

8 Future trends in research

9 Where to look for further information

10 References

Chapter 5 - Biosecurity and safety for humans and animals in organic animal farming: K. Ellis, Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health and Food Safety, University of Glasgow, UK;

1 Introduction

2 The challenges of biosecurity risk in organic farming

3 Food safety summary

4 Controlling infectious diseases

5 Conclusions and future trends

6 Case studies

7 Where to look for further information

8 References