In Dr Brockhoff s view, the most important thing feed mills can do to reduce risk of transmission of viral diseases through feed is, when possible, to buy ingredients from countries that aren t infected with major diseases. Photo: Ruben Keestra
It was in 2014 that the North American veterinary community – as well as the worldwide feed and pork industries – started to realise that viruses were being transmitted in feed. Porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) broke out in the United States in 2013 and by January 2014, the disease had arrived in Canada. “We figured out quite quickly at that point that the outbreak here in Canada was linked to a certain feed ingredient, from the same feedmill, and soon thereafter a research paper was publ
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