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Guidance to help pig producers cope with porcine epidemic diarrhoea STANDARD operating procedures (SOPs) to help the pig industry cope with any future outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) have been produced by the British Pig Executive (BPEX) on behalf of the Pig Health and Welfare Council. BPEX says that, ultimately, there will be about a dozen SOPs available on its website, dealing with issues such as visitors on site, vehicles, manure and handling fallen stock. Biosecurity is central to all the SOPs, which are based on experiences in the Canadian pig industry, which has had some success in controlling PED using strict biosecurity. The SOPS will be updated regularly as the situation changes and knowledge of how to control PED improves. Martin Smith, BPEX’s veterinary
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manager, said that the SOPs outlined best practice and methods of control in the event of PED arriving in the UK. ‘They will apply to all producers, either indoor or outdoor, processors and the entire allied industry,’ he said. ‘The main purpose is to detail what actions each area of the industry needs to take and when, and they will be posted on the BPEX website for people to familiarise themselves with them. He added that BPEX would also shortly be publishing a decision tree for producers to use in the event of an outbreak. This would be a step-by-step guide showing what they should do and would be accompanied by flow charts indicating what information needed to be given to whom and when. ‘Things are slightly different for
smallholders,’ he continued, ‘so a booklet is being produced for them and another covering what actions hauliers need to take – the aim is to cover the entire industry. The Canadians have already demonstrated that good biosecurity, practised by the whole industry, can contain and control PED.’ BPEX says the SOPs are the first step in preparing to cope with exotic and emerging disease. It intends to develop a disease charter for producers, which ‘will have a vital role to play in the event of an outbreak’. n The SOPs can be downloaded from www.bpex.org.uk/health-welfare/ health/emerging-diseases/pedv/ standard-operating-procedures doi: 10.1136/vr.h2985
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Guidance to help pig producers cope with porcine epidemic diarrhoea Veterinary Record 2015 176: 586
doi: 10.1136/vr.h2985 Updated information and services can be found at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/176/23/586.1
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News & Reports exotic diseases
Guidance to help pig producers cope with porcine epidemic diarrhoea STANDARD operating procedures (SOPs) to help the pig industry cope with any future outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) have been produced by the British Pig Executive (BPEX) on behalf of the Pig Health and Welfare Council. BPEX says that, ultimately, there will be about a dozen SOPs available on its website, dealing with issues such as visitors on site, vehicles, manure and handling fallen stock. Biosecurity is central to all the SOPs, which are based on experiences in the Canadian pig industry, which has had some success in controlling PED using strict biosecurity. The SOPS will be updated regularly as the situation changes and knowledge of how to control PED improves. Martin Smith, BPEX’s veterinary
586 | Veterinary Record | June 6, 2015
manager, said that the SOPs outlined best practice and methods of control in the event of PED arriving in the UK. ‘They will apply to all producers, either indoor or outdoor, processors and the entire allied industry,’ he said. ‘The main purpose is to detail what actions each area of the industry needs to take and when, and they will be posted on the BPEX website for people to familiarise themselves with them. He added that BPEX would also shortly be publishing a decision tree for producers to use in the event of an outbreak. This would be a step-by-step guide showing what they should do and would be accompanied by flow charts indicating what information needed to be given to whom and when. ‘Things are slightly different for
smallholders,’ he continued, ‘so a booklet is being produced for them and another covering what actions hauliers need to take – the aim is to cover the entire industry. The Canadians have already demonstrated that good biosecurity, practised by the whole industry, can contain and control PED.’ BPEX says the SOPs are the first step in preparing to cope with exotic and emerging disease. It intends to develop a disease charter for producers, which ‘will have a vital role to play in the event of an outbreak’. n The SOPs can be downloaded from www.bpex.org.uk/health-welfare/ health/emerging-diseases/pedv/ standard-operating-procedures doi: 10.1136/vr.h2985
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Guidance to help pig producers cope with porcine epidemic diarrhoea Veterinary Record 2015 176: 586
doi: 10.1136/vr.h2985 Updated information and services can be found at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/176/23/586.1
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