Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Does pre-slaughter transportation and lairage affect Salmonella enterica shedding prevalence and levels in market pigs?
August 31, 2009By Marcos Rostagno
This research was conducted with the objective of determining the effect of pre-slaughter transportation and lairage on Salmonella enterica shedding prevalence, shedding levels of total...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Literature Review of Health Effects Testing Related to Livestock Production
August 31, 2009By Tracy Barfield
One of the excuses frequently used in objection to citing or expansion of livestock and poultry operations is that such operations result in negative health impacts for people residing in proximity...
Swine Health - PRRS
Estimating the infectious dose for transmission of PRRSV by aerosol exposure
August 11, 2009By Jeffrey Zimmerman
The objective of this research was to quantify the likelihood of PRRSV transmission via aerosols as a function of exposure dose. This information is important because it reveals the process by which...
Environment - Other
Mass balance of nutrients for the finishing phase as affected by dietary manipulation
August 7, 2009By Scott Carter
An experiment utilizing finisher pigs was conducted to determine the effects of dietary manipulation on pig growth performance, nutrient excretion, gaseous emissions, and the mass balance of...
Environment - Air
Chemical Characterization of both particulates and gaseous emissions from impacted and non-impacted areas associated with swine feeding operations
August 6, 2009By Steven Trabue
Odorants in the air include both volatile organic and volatile sulfur compounds. Movement of these compounds from swine feeding operations to surrounding community is thought to occur either through...
Human Nutrition
A National Survey of the Nitrite/Nitrate Concentrations in Cured Meat Products and Non-meat Foods Available at Retail
August 4, 2009By Jimmy Keeton
Nitrite, and in some cases nitrate, are functional food ingredients that serve as effective antimicrobials to inhibit pathogens such as Clostridium botulinum and Listeria monocytogenes, impart a...
Swine Health - PRRS
Identification of Type I Interferon Antagonists of PRRSV Viral Structural Proteins
August 3, 2009By Kay S. Faaberg
PRRSV is an important swine pathogen and infections caused by this virus have not been efficiently controlled. This is in part due to the lack of knowledge about the insufficient swine immune...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Validation of Sanitation Procedures to Prevent the Cross Contact with Allergens during the Processing of Pork Products
August 2, 2009By Margaret Hardin
Allergens continue to be a challenge to the food industry from a public health standpoint as well as from a regulatory perspective. Several options exist to separate allergen-containing and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Understanding the role of the regulatory immune response in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus persistence
July 30, 2009By Tanya LeRoith
This study addressed an important question in the mechanism of persistence and immune suppression by PRRSV. PRRSV persistence currently is a major problem in the field. However, the mechanism by...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Impact of organic acids and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on Salmonella serovars with SGI1- mediated multi-antibiotic resistance
July 29, 2009By Mark A. Harrison
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella has been implicated in several infections and outbreaks worldwide; they have been linked to the consumption of contaminated products involving pork as well....
