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A few additional seats have become available for an event that will be held by WATT and DuPont during IPPE 2015 on Tuesday, January 27 at 5:30 pm at The Ritz Carlton Downtown Atlanta Grand Ballroom. A distinguished panel of poultry professionals will discuss the factors causing some mass market restaurant chains and major poultry retail brands to go antibiotic-free, and the steps poultry integrators are taking to meet these claims. The panel includes:
- Dr Bruce Stewart-Brown, Senior Vice President of Food Safety & Quality
- Live Operations, Perdue Farms Dr Stephen Collett, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Georgia
- Mr Richard Kottmeyer, Founder and Managing Director, Strategic
- Dr Gregory R Siragusa, Senior Principal Scientist – Microbiology, DuPont
Moderated by WATT's content director of agri-business,Terrence O'Keefe, the event is designed to answer burning questions concerning changing consumer attitudes to antibiotic growth promoter free claims and the potential impact of reduced antibiotic-free promoter use. The panel will also discuss whether there are real substitutes for sub-therapeutic antibiotics in development or whether healthy nutrition combined with improved bio-security and complex management is the answer. They will also address when the revisions to the Veterinary Feed Directive are likely to take effect and what impact this might have on how poultry meat birds are raised in the US.
Randolph J. Chick, DVM, Senior Technical Services Manager at DuPont’s animal nutrition division, commented,
"One issue currently facing animal agriculture in our society concerns maintenance of production efficiencies while reducing the use of feed-administered antibiotics for growth promotion purposes. Biosecurity practices, cleaning and disinfection, vaccine developments and more effective husbandry practices are part of the emerging equation - advances in gut health management will be recognized and added to the summation in time. For monogastrics, skilled applications of exogenous feed enzymes and direct-fed microbials, along with modulating acidulants and other compositions will eventually become part of the new schematic."
January 21, 2015 - DuPont
