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The four most common mistakes on pig farms, illustrated with real examples.

Preventing the entry and spread of diseases should be an objective on any swine farm, so adequately designing biosecurity aspects is key. In this article, we continue to discuss biosecurity measures with two experts: Lara Ruiz and José Casanovas.

Although cleaning between batches appears to be a basic task that all farms should be doing correctly, after talking to the authors we see that there is still a lot of room for improvement.

New approaches and technologies in objective monitoring of biosecurity reduce the risk of non-compliance or failure in application.

The movement of live animals out of the farm can compromise farm biosecurity. A meticulously designed transfer facility and safe load out protocols are key to prevent the risk of cross contamination.

This second article on the assessment of truck cleaning and disinfection describes how to carry out and evaluate the results of microbiological validation and adenosine triphosphate detection.

What are the most important points to include when auditing the cleaning and disinfection of a truck that has transported pigs? In this article we focus on visual inspection.

In this third article we will review the key aspects and critical points that need to be considered when designing a swine transport hygiene protocol for your system.

This article describes what the "ideal" wash station for cleaning animal transport vehicles would look like, with the highest standards.