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Pork fibrin used as a meat binder in pork variety and offal meats
April 29, 2015By Dale Woerner
The objective was to conduct a proof of concept for the use of fibrin from pork blood to create value-added export items from various pork offal items and variety meats. Fibrin is a cold set...
Swine Health - General Disease
Defining PEDV maternal humoral immunity and correlates of neonatal protection
April 29, 2015By Luis Gimenez-Lirola
Through the proposed approach we tried to the answers PEDV serology questions from the field regarding the association between maternal anti-PEDV antibody and protection of neonates against PEDV. It...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Determining the Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Salmonella Serovars Isolated from U.S. Retail Ground Pork
April 28, 2015By J. Chance Brooks
Salmonella is a foodborne pathogen that may be associated with meat products. The goal of this project was to determine the prevalence of Salmonella in ground pork at retail, and to evaluate...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
PRRS host genetics consortium (PHGC): a proposal to continue consortium work to study the role of host genetics and resistance to PRRSV
April 27, 2015By Joan K. Lunney
Despite extensive efforts to eliminate PRRS from US production facilities, it remains a key disease issue and poses a continued economic...
Swine Health - General Disease
Live-animal assay for identifying correlates of protection/cross-protection for intranasal swine influenza virus vaccines
April 14, 2015By Crystal Loving
The majority of vaccines currently available for the prevention of influenza A virus (IAV) in swine are formulated as whole-inactivated...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Pork harvest plant survey to determine possible points of variety meat contamination
April 13, 2015By William Benjy Mikel
The objective of optimizing value throughout the pork chain is enhanced by improving the value of export products that have little value to domestic consumers. Pork offal products, specifically...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Diagnosis of sow lameness using the microcomputer-based force plate system and pattern recognition methods
April 8, 2015By Kenneth J. Stalder
Sow longevity is a key component to breeding herd profitability. Lameness is a major reason for culling and therefore can negatively impact sow longevity. Lameness assessment in group housing...
PEDV Feedback Protocol Optimization to Improve Immunity and Productivity
April 8, 2015By Michael P. Murtaugh
The take-home messages for producers are that simple feedback protocols induce good immunity, protection is durable for months, serology can be improved, and lactogenic immunity appears dependent on...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
A Cell-free Synthesis Approach for the Rapid and Cost-Effective Production of Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccines
March 31, 2015By Bradley Bundy
1. Objectives:The objective of this work was to assess a technology’s potential to produce the components of a Foot and...
Animal Well-being
Validation of EEG measures for pain assessment in piglets aged 0 to 10 days
March 2, 2015By Craig Johnson
According to current commercial practice, tail docking of pigs is performed without analgesia and is therefore acutely painful. Negative public perception concerning tail docking without the use of...
