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Salmonella enteritidis – a serious issue!
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by ROD JENNER
ARE you an egg farmer and buy in eggs?
Do you buy second- hand packaging?
Do you have an external feed supply?
Do you have an external dead bird pickup?
Do you have other poul- try farms close by?
Do you have rodents?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, you need to sit up and take notice.
Salmonella enteritidis is a risk reality to your business.
Just how serious is SE?
It’s serious enough to quarantine and depopu- late your farm.
It’s serious enough to recall all your eggs and destroy them.
SE is a major food safety risk, and outbreaks could seriously affect egg consumption.
A number of steps can be taken to reduce the risk of your property becoming contaminated with SE.
Biosecurity is the key – high-level biosecurity!
If you bring anything onto your property that may have been on another property, or from a grad- ing floor or processor, you need to be fastidious about your biosecurity.
It does not have to be eggs, it can be packag- ing, pallets, equipment, vehicles, people, in fact, anything that can carry dust can also carry SE.
Having a good approved supplier arrangement is the first step in ensur- ing you are only bringing clean materials onto your farm.
Only essential visitors should be allowed near
the production area of your farm.
People are particularly good carriers of salmo- nella.
A thorough cleaning and sanitising procedure for all incoming goods and materials must also be in place.
This step should ide- ally be done at a location away from your sheds or packing rooms so the risk of contamination is con- tained to a ‘dirty’ area of your farm.
Check the sanitiser you are using is registered to kill salmonella (check the label or ask your supplier).
Are you using it at the right concentration?
Are you thoroughly wetting the surfaces?
Does it have a residual effect?
Is it neutralised by or- ganic matter?
You need to be very thorough with this step.
Do you have an ef- fective rodent control program?
Checking the activity in and around your bait sta- tions is an effective way of evaluating the amount of rodent activity on your farm.
Vaccination and feed additives are particu- larly useful additions to any SE control program, but they are not infal- lible.
They are a good backup if the organism happens to break your quarantine barriers and get into your flocks, but it is risky to rely solely on these.
Again, check with your vaccine supplier and feed supplier that the products you are using are in fact registered against salmo- nella enteritidis.
Please consult your vet- erinarian to review your biosecurity and salmo- nella control strategies before it’s too late.
Depopulation and de- contamination are the only solutions to an in- cursion of salmonella en- teritidis on your farm.
Stockyard Industries
expands its team and
welcomes Tin Phung
TIN Phung will take on the role of territory sales representative for Stock- yard.
Tin has come from more than 20 years’ experience in the poultry industry.
After graduating from an Agricultural Science degree at the University of Melbourne in 1998, Tin then worked with broiler breeders for eight years.
In 2007 he switched to the layer industry, work- ing for Hy-Line Australia.
Tin joined Hy-Line International in 2013 as technical service manager
for South-East Asia cover- ing 12 countries.
Tin will be based in Bendigo, Victoria but will travel extensively throughout Australia to service Stockyard Indus- tries’ customer base.
Tin can be contacted on 0400 075 193 or tin@ stockyardindustries.com
Tin has always enjoyed working in the poultry industry and is eager to start his next chapter in his career and meet our poultry and pig customers to discuss equipment and project needs.
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