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Feed and Feed Ingredients Not the ‘Big Stool Leg’ Spreading Viruses to
Pig Farms
vice president of public policy and education, American Feed Industry Association
model be expanded to include porcine-origin feed ingredients
individual pig farms within a large, pig-dense region.
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• Local transmission, farm-to-farm proximity. • Pig movement, between farms.
• Vehicles, pig movement between farms.
• Vehicles, feed delivery.
Inclusion of porcine-origin feed ingredients were not among
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It is very important within all steps of the feed chain — Biosecurity protocols in place protected these ingredients
because of regular feed deliveries to pig farms, feed delivery should not be extrapolated to all systems, which may include
Therefore, future research should be conducted as to where and R
that if food or water becomes contaminated with a pathogen, If the feed we deliver to the pig barn is contaminated with a
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of research recent research demonstrates that if a contaminated feed ingredient is brought into a feed mill, dust from that ingredient
and Plasma Producers, jointly funded a research project at North
College of Veterinary Medicine, have been developing a
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