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Biosecurity is not a new concept for the poultry, swine, or dairy industries. However, it is a challenge that we continually face in animal agriculture operations and is also a key factor for optimizing the health, welfare, and sustainability of farm animals.
Typically, we look to past disease scenarios to see what went well (or not) and to know how we can further improve our biosecurity practices and strategy. While learning from the past is critically important, we must also look ahead to the future and investigate how we can be more efficient, effective, and innovative.
BIOSECURITY, A COMBINATION OF BIOEXCLUSION AND BIOCONTAINMENT
In a paper1 published in 2012 on disease risks for bovine herds, John F. Mee describes biosecurity as a combination of bioexclusion and biocontainment.
Specifically, he states that “bioexclusion relates to preventive measures (risk reduction strategies) designed to avoid the introduction of pathogenic infections (hazards), whereas biocontainment relates to measures to limit within-farm transmission of infectious hazards and onward spread to other farms.”
This same philosophy for biosecurity applies to the poultry industry. To be successful with the elimination of disease, we must focus on new strategies for preventing the introduction of infectious pathogens (bioexclusion) and mitigating the potential spread of a disease pathogen (biocontainment).
The global poultry industry has decades of experience with HPAI, mycoplasma, salmonella and other poultry diseases in commercial poultry operations. Thus, we fortunately (unfortunately) have a lot of examples to learn from and we also continue to have opportunities to improve our ability to eliminate disease and biosecurity risks.
In this paper, we’ll focus on innovative measures and effective strategies to prevent the introduction of avian pathogens and minimize their spread.
Specifically, lessons learned from the past – from poultry companies and other animal agriculture sectors – will be shared.
And ideas for the future will be highlighted that may inspire companies to consider animal-based tools for early disease detection and novel measures to eliminate disease risk for their farms.
Bioexclusion
The old adage, “a gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure” is the primary foundation for bioexclusion and actions to prevent the introduction of pat...
