Page 4 of articles about cleaning
Cleaning the bowls for milk replacer supplementation
A system for cleaning the bowls in a practical, effective, and quick way without splashing all the farrowing pen or soaking the piglets.
Use of sprinklers for cleaning
Save time, work and water when cleaning the buildings.
Clinical case: Control measures in an outbreak of oedema disease
A series of unsuccessful measures are taken until the problem is finally solved.
The EU approves the use of recycled hot water to eliminate microbiological contamination in meat
Spain: Interporc will take to the Spanish pig farms the Rules on Good Biosecurity Practices
European Union: measures to prevent the introduction into the Union of the African swine fever virus
All-in-all-out strategy
The difficulties of carrying out an all-in-all-out strategy correctly...
Cleaning & Disinfection
Biosecurity practices in Spanish pig herds
Salmonella in wild birds: a risk for swine?
The role that wild birds can play in the spreading of this infection cannot be underrated.
Help for pig producers to keep on top of cleaning and disinfection
Salmonella contamination sources
The farms can be free from PRRS, enzootic pneumonia, atrophic rhinitis, pleuropneumonia, scabies, swine dysentery, and so on. However, why is it we are still unable to characterize farms as Salmonella-free?
Choose the right products for cleaning and disinfecting
Disinfection
In the last article we looked at the need for thorough complete cleaning of a building, room or equipment in any efficient biosecurity programme. If done properly this will reduce the pathogen burden hugely as shown by a typical reduction in bacterial counts by 99%.