Animal Well-being
Reviewing the State of Scientific Evidence and Developing Recommendations about Pain Mitigation Strategies in Piglets Undergoing Routine Processing Procedures
September 23, 2013By Annette O’Connor
The following non-technical summary describes the recommendations from a review and decision-making process conducted between August 2012 and August 2013 by the panel at the request of the...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Occurrence and Movement of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Tile-Drained Agricultural Fields Receiving Swine Manure Application
September 20, 2013By Michelle Soupir
The use of antibiotics by the swine industry to increase production efficiency and treat disease is thought to contribute to antibiotic resistance in the environment. When manure from hog operations...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impact of Mitochondrially Targeted Novel Antioxidant on Pig Feed Efficiency
September 4, 2013By Don Beitz
Oxidative stress is considered a potential cause of decreased feed efficiency in animals. Therefore, incorporating antioxidants into livestock feeds may improve feed efficiency by decreasing...
Human Nutrition
Systematic Reviews of Observational and Experimental Human Studies Related to Pork Intake and Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin-Resistance Syndrome or Its Components
August 16, 2013By Nicolas Stettler
The objective of this research was to perform a systematic review of the scientific literature related to pork intake and type 2 diabetes, insulin-resistance syndrome (metabolic syndrome) or its...
Pork Safety
Depletion of penicillin G residues in sows after intramuscular injection
August 13, 2013By David Newman|David Smith|Sara Lupton|Weilin Shelver
A total of 126 heavy sows were treated with a 5x dose of penicillin G procaine via intramuscular (IM) administration for 3 consecutive days using 3 injection patterns. Sets of 18 animals (6 per...
Animal Well-being
Translactational analgesia to reduce pain during piglet castration
July 19, 2013By Jennifer Brown
Commercially reared piglets receive a number of routine management procedures including castration, tail docking, teeth clipping, and vaccination. Castration of pigs is done primarily to avoid boar...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Longitudinal study to determine Salmonella serovars and identify risk factors associated with their dissemination in commercial swine farm
July 1, 2013By Siddhartha Thakur
The purpose of this study was to determine what Salmonella serotypes are present in pigs and their environment on commercial swine farms, and...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Identification of genetic signatures for African swine fever virus serologic group specificity
July 1, 2013By Daniel Rock
African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease in domestic swine with mortality rates approaching 100%. Devastating ASF disease outbreaks and the continuing disease epidemic in...
Environment - Air
Meta-Analysis of H2S, NH3, VOCs, PM10 and PM2.5 Emissions from Swine Production Facilities in North America
July 1, 2013By Wendy Powers
Industry Summary:Air emissions from livestock production facilities are receiving increased attention due to potential human health and environmental implications. The goal of this project...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of novel reassortant swine influenza viruses
July 1, 2013By Wenjun Ma
Since the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus (pH1N1) was found to transmit to pigs worldwide including in the USA, subsequent reassortment events between pH1N1 and endemic swine influenza viruses (SIVs)...
