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Some suppliers are very proactive
in implementing biosecurity for their
employees and vehicles that are in
direct contact with farms, Templeton
says, "but again I'm not sure that the
science has been available to them."
Dr. Amass' research also
looked at issues such as boot -
dips and found them virtually
useless because very few people can
keep them clean enough to do any
good. "If you look at them as you
visit farms they're often contam-
inated," Templeton says of her own
experience. "It's a myth that needs to
be dispelled." It's better, she says, to
give people clean boots to wear.
Templeton thinks the pork
industry has been hurt by its
overemphasis on the danger of
people movement in spreading
disease.
"Because of the rules we've set up
of not allowing people to move from
barn to barn, pig production has
become a lonely business,"
Templeton says. Dairy producers and
some of the other commodity groups
get together more and share more and
see each others' operations.
"I'm not exactly advocating that
we throw open the barn doors, but I
do know that (the isolation) affects
people. I know that when we bring
people together for producer
meetings, the formal part of the
meeting will be over at nine and you
kick them out at 11 because they
spent the two hours after the formal
meeting talking about things. They
just don't get that chance. Fear of
disease has kept people from visiting,
so I think we need to open the doors
a crack — with proper precautions —
for the good of the industry. I tkink
our industry would benefit from the
exchange of ideas that people would
get. Not all veterinarians would agree
with me on that though."0
Website lets you do a
biosecurity audit
Want to do a biosecurity audit
of your farm?
The U.S. Center for Biosecurity
has a biosecurity questionnaire
which you can download and fill in
to get an idea of how you meet
biosecurity standards. The web
address is
www.biosecuritycenter.org