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SAPPO’s ten
recommended
biosecurity
measures for
pig farms
1. Fence your piggery effectively to
prevent access by people and animals.
If possible prevent animals being able to
dig under the fence.
2. Don’t allow other types of animals or
pets within your piggery fence.
3. Don’t allow visitors into your piggery
if they have been in contact with other
pigs the past two days.
4. You should provide all visitors with
overalls and boots before entering your
farm. They must leave these overalls and
boots on your farm when they leave.
5. Don’t allow people to eat within the
piggery and especially not to bring pork
or pork products into the piggery.
6. Make sure that vehicles and goods
you bring into your piggery are not a
risk. Always disinfect vehicles and goods
before they enter the piggery.
7. Only bring pigs in from a piggery,
which have a known disease status.
International
Water contaminated?
Bottle water produced in the
northern Gyeonggi Province of
South Korea may be contaminated
with the foot-and-mouth
disease (FMD) virus plus other
harmful organic substances, says
an environmental group.
According to the Citizens’ Institute for
animal HealtH
What is biosecurity?
Biosecurity on pig farms is a
set of protocols and standards
designed to reduce the risk of
diseases not present within
the pig population from entering
the pig farm and preventing
diseases within the pig
population from leaving the
unit and infecting other pig
farms.
The basis of biosecurity measures is
demarcating the biosecure unit with
a physical barrier and then restrict-
That piggery’s health status should be
the same or better than your piggery’s
status. Never bring pigs from auction
facilities into your piggery.
8. Do not feed swill (including dead
poultry, poultry offal and animal offal).
The use of vegetables is not a risk but
feeding meat products to pigs is risky.
9. Dead pigs must be disposed of so
that they do not pose a possible source
of disease to pigs outside of your piggery
and must not be used for human
Environmental Studies, 32 FMD burial
sites for more than 23 000 pigs and
cows were made near four drinking
plants in Pocheon and Yeoncheon. The
plants in those areas produce bottle
water by purifying underground water.
The group has urged the government to
launch a full-scale inspection into FMD
burial sites to check whether polluted
fl uid leaked from the sites and penetrated
into underground water sources.
Federal data show meat and poultry
safe, says AMI
The recently published Pew
study misleads consumers about
the public health signifi cance of
Staphylococcus aureus from food
sources, says the American Meat
Institute (AMI).
A new Pew Commission-funded study
misleads consumers about US meat
and poultry, which is among the safest
in the world, according to AMI. Authors
of the new study, which involved a small
number of samples from retail stores,
claim that their fi ndings suggest that a
signifi cant public health risk exists. However,
federal data from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
show steady declines in foodborne illnesses
linked to consumption of meat
and poultry overall and indicate that
human infections with Staphylococcus
aureus (“Staph”) comprise less than one
percent of total foodborne illnesses.
ing access through the barrier. Thus,
only essential people, animals and
goods are allowed into the unit.
Furthermore, anything entering
the unit is disinfected and its origin
carefully controlled to reduce the risk
of it bringing a disease into the unit.
Feeding of any swill is strictly
prohibited. Swill is any leftover food
from the catering industry, including
restaurants, hotels and hospitals,
especially if it contains any form of
meat.
Dr Peter Evans
consumption.
10. If you think doing/allowing anything
to happen in your piggery is a disease
risk – don’t do it.
These recommendations are available on
SAPPO’s website www.sapork.com.
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FMD in Taiwan
A new outbreak of foot-andmouth
disease has been discovered
in Taipei.
Dr Kwo-Ching Huang, the chief veterinary
offi cer and deputy director general
in Chinese Taipei said that 14 cases
and 123 susceptible cases had been
discovered.
During the routine active FMD serological
surveillance, NSP antibodies
were detected on a pig farm.
The investigation showed that all
pigs on the farm were clinically healthy.
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