Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Evaluation of Porcine Antimicrobial Peptides as Antibiotic Alternatives
December 1, 2004By Guolong (Glenn) Zhang
The widespread use of antibiotics for growth promotion and disease prevention in the livestock industry is posing food safety and public health concerns. Antimicrobial peptides that are effective in...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Cloning of an 18kd oocyst-specific protein from Toxoplasma gondii for serological detection of human infection
September 28, 2004By Dolores Hill
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Bioinformatics Based Genome Comparison of Six Salmonella spp. to Provide a Foundation for the Development of Reliable Molecular Epidemiological Methods.
August 3, 2004By Scot Dowd
Salmonella research is the top priority for the pig industry especially related to pre-harvest reduction of pathogens with potential public health significance. The pre-harvest food safety research...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Pre-nitrate adaptation and chlorate supplementation to reduce Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Yersinia enterocolitica in swine
June 15, 2004By Robin C. Anderson|Yong Soo Jung
Salmonella, E. coli and Yersinia are bacteria that can cause foodborne illness in humans. These bacteria can be found in the intestinal tract of pigs, therefore methods are sought to rid these...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Determination of Salmonella Classification Levels for Selected Iowa Swine Herds and an Evaluation of Production Risk Factors for Classification Status
May 20, 2004By James McKean
This study represents the first attempt to classify typical Midwestern
production sites for Salmonella spp. sero-prevalence using the Danish classification system. With 1,131 farms represented, this...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Role of gilts in the introduction and transmission of Salmonella in swine production systems
May 1, 2004By Ronald M. Weigel
Three swine production units in Illinois were examined with respect to the role of purchased gilts in introducing new genetic variants of Salmonella into a herd, and the risk of incoming gilts...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
On-Farm Evaluation of Diet Acidification
March 24, 2004By James Pettigrew
Under the conditions of these experiments, lactic acid added to complex nursery diets does not improve growth performance and (or) health in weaned pigs in large groups on a commercial farm, in the presence or absence of dietary lactose.
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
A Survey of Patterns and Persistence of Antimicrobial Resistance on Swine Farms Using Three Different Antimicrobial Use Strategies
November 24, 2003By David Reeves
Antimicrobial resistance expression at the farm level is proposed to adversely impact human health, though this relationship is poorly understood. This work suggests that prevalence of antimicrobial...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Productivity and Economic Impacts on Feedgrade Antibiotic Use in Pork Production
October 31, 2003By Paul E. McNamara
An economic and statistical analysis of the 2000 NAHMS National Swine Survey data reveals that efficient use of antibiotics for growth promotion and disease prevention purposes is associated with...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Inoculation of Bacterial Pathogens to Control Disease
October 1, 2003By Carlos Pijoan
This study compared 3 different interventions to control Haemophilus parasuis mortality in nursery pigs. Both a commercial and an autogenous vaccine had no significant effect in this farm system. In...
