Is Salmonella breaking the rules? A take from IPPE
Published: October 25, 2021
By: Roxana Sánchez-Ingunza, DVM PhD, Owner & Manager, RSI Poultry Veterinary Consulting LLC.
A sneaky microorganism capable of creating nightmares to the poultry industry is here to stay but is it really taking over?
It is amazing to see how many available options are in the market for Salmonella control. During the last IPPE Expo, I had an opportunity to chat with various nutritional and biological products suppliers and learn from them how an integrated control strategy is required for Salmonella control in poultry. Selecting the right products is only part of it; monitoring and data analysis are essential complements.
Now more than ever, veterinarians play very important roles, not just in infectious diseases control and prevention, but also in ensuring animal welfare, overseeing nutritional health and educating people to ensure traceability and good practices. In addition, food safety counts on an adequate assessment and the right decisions in live production.
A system that allows the veterinarian to gather relevant information from the field and analyze it in a timely manner would benefit any poultry producer. Automatization in data collection and next generation diagnostic tools are to be developed in an inexpensive and user friendly manner to better serve this purpose without forgetting they have to come with exceptional technical support.
And how is this linked to Salmonella and its persistent and trouble-making attitude? Simple: a better understanding of its behavior under a constantly changing environment is needed, looking at the right things, at the right moment, and with the right tools, will certainly make a difference.
Let's all work together to be above the standards.
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3 de noviembre de 2021
Excellent your questioning and reflection. Without monitoring and data analysis, the industry will hardly achieve its goals, whatever the disease.
The result is that, for not being able to reach satisfactory levels of contamination by salmonella in their production, many veterinarians still use - systematically - chemical and antimicrobial products, in the raw material, feed and water, aggressive to the animals, to the environment, without thinking at all about the risks for the final consumer.
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15 de noviembre de 2021
Dr Roxane Sanchez-Ingunza thank you for your thoughts. You wrote - A system that allows the veterinarian to gather relevant information from the field and analyze it in a timely manner would benefit any poultry producer.
Surveillance would definitely benefit the industry and the consumer but not necessarily the individual producer. Producer's benefits would depend on the regulatory framework and the actions taken following the detection of some Salmonella serovars, as well as the availability of financial support /compensation schemes for affected farms in cases where depopulation of flocks is required by the authorities. In the absence of such schemes individual producers may find it extremely difficult to resume their operations.
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