Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Determination of the Diagnostic Sensitivity and Specificity of a Reference Method for Salmonella sp. Detection in Swine Fecal Samples of Known Infection Status
August 18, 2006By Brenda Love
Salmonella enterica is a bacterium that causes disease in many animals, including swine and human beings. This organism can be transmitted from swine to human beings through direct contact, or...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Use of sodium chlorate to eliminate gram-negative pathogens in live hogs: Dose titration study to determine safe tissue residues
July 20, 2006By David J. Smith
Each year thousands of US consumers become ill because they have eaten food products that are contaminated with pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella or E. coli O157:H7. Intense efforts have been...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Sequencing of 10 potential molecular epidemiological targets from a collection of food safety relevant Salmonella spp.
July 12, 2006By Scot Dowd
The development and testing of molecular epidemiological tools for pre-harvest food safety applications is an important and rapidly evolving issue. This means that it is vital to track bacterial...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Comparison of Cereal Grains in Diets for Nursery Pigs:Microbiology, Health and Performance
May 1, 2006By James Pettigrew
As increasingly severe restrictions on the use of antimicrobials in pig production loom, it is imperative that the industry find alternate ways to enhance pig performance and health. These ways will...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Determination of Salmonella Classification Levels for Selected Midwestern Swine Herds Utilizing Abattoir-based Samples and Compare Classification Stability over Time
March 21, 2006By James McKean
Since 1995, the Danish swine industry has conducted an on-farm Salmonella control program to categorize production sites as to their risks for Salmonella contamination. This classification has been...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Control of Salmonella by segregated early weaning, topical disinfection and administration of sodium chlorate
December 15, 2005By Peter Bahnson
The results of this study document that sodium chlorate / nitrate / lactate, used alone or combination with early weaning and/or topical disinfection can be effective in reducing Salmonella...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Validation of a serological assay using an 18kd oocyst-specific protein from Toxoplasma gondii for differentiation of oocyst versus tissue cyst induced human infection
October 18, 2005By Dolores Hill
The ELISA assay developed in this study is both sensitive and specific for the detection of human antibody to Toxoplasma gondii infection initiated by consumption of infectious oocysts. The assay...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
A comparison of administration routes of direct fed microbials to nursery pigs, and the effects on growth performance and gut health
August 10, 2005By John Scott Radcliffe
Direct fed microbials (DFM) have been investigated as a potential replacement for sub-therapeutic antibiotics in swine diets with mixed results being reported. Our results, found no overall...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Use of molecular assays to assess Toxoplasma gondii burden in commercial meat samples
March 29, 2005By Joan K. Lunney
Preventing pork associated foodborne diseases is important to pork producers. Infection with the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii (Tg), is a known risk factor associated with pork consumption. Thus assays...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of a rapid detection method for Salmonella serotypes using a flow cytometric assay
February 2, 2005By Michael Wannameuhler
The use of serological assays to monitor the health status of swine herds has been used for several decades. The primary assays employed have included agglutination, neutralization, and/or ELISA...
