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Secure Pork Supply Plan Pilot Project

A Continuity of Business Plan for the Pork Industry in the Face of a Foreign Animal Disease

Pam Zaabel, DVM

Center for Food Security and Public Health

College of Veterinary Medicine

Iowa State University

Today’s Discussion

Why a Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan is needed

What the SPS Plan is

Implementation of the SPS Plan Pilot Project on a Production Site

Why a Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan is needed

Global Prevalence of FMDvWorld Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has • 178 member countries:

– 96 countries are endemic (“have it”) and have neverbeen free of FMD

– 66 countries free of FMD– 11 countries have free

zones either with or without vaccination

– 5 countries were free and recently suffered from a re-emergence of FMD

Leon, E. A. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 59 (Suppl. 1) pages 1-14, 2012

The United States has had Nine Outbreaks of FMD

1870, 1880 and 1884: Due to importation of infected animals. Since the development of a Federal system of inspection and quarantine of imported livestock, no outbreak has been attributed to admission of live animals.

1902, 1908, 1914, 1924 (two separate outbreaks) and 1929

All outbreaks were controlled by stop movement and stamping out

North American Animal Agriculture Industry is Unique

Herd size:• >50,000 cattle

feedlots• >5,000 cow dairies• >70,000 calf ranches• >20,000 sows

United States Animal Agriculture Industry is Unique

Extensive mobility of animals, products, feed• ~1,000,000 swine in

transit daily• 400,000 to 500,000 to

slaughter

• ~400,000 cattle in transit per day• ~94,000 commercial

cattle slaughter per day

• Auction markets, fairs, exhibitions?

• Sheep, goats, others?

US Animal Agriculture is Highly Vulnerable to Foreign Animal Diseases (FADs)

• US production animals have no immunity to FADs

• Export markets will be lost and prices will drop dramatically

• Stop movement orders will be issued• Emergency FMD vaccine stocks are far below

what would be required to address a livestock dense state or multi-state outbreak

• The size, structure, efficiency, and extensive movement inherent in the U.S. livestock industries will present unprecedented challenges in the event of a FAD outbreak

What is the Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan?

Secure Pork Supply Plan (Funded by USDA APHIS VS and NPB)

Develop procedures to allow the safe movement of animals with no evidence of infection in a FAD control zone to a pork processing plant or to other sites to accommodate different stages of production.

Secure Pork Supply Plan Partners

• SPS Planning Committee– Federal and State officials– Representatives of all phases of the

swine industry– NPB, NPPC, AASV– Academia

• Iowa State University• University of Minnesota

• Funded by USDA APHIS and NPB

FADs included in SPS plan

• Foot and mouth disease– Swine, cattle, sheep, goats, deer

• Classical swine fever• African swine fever• Swine vesicular disease

PIADC

Foot and Mouth Disease : 7 days post infection

North American Animal Agriculture Industry is Unique

Strategies for the response to, and management of, a FAD outbreak will change as the outbreak progresses and will depend upon the magnitude, location and other characteristics of the outbreak.

Phases and Types of FMD Response

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/phases-and-types-of-an-fmd-outbreak

FMD Detection in the United States: Types of an FMD Outbreak

Type 1: Focal

Type 2: Moderate Regional

Type 3: Large Regional

Type 4: Widespread or National

Type 5: Catastrophic U.S.

Type 6: Catastrophic North American

Response Shifts from Emphasis on Stamping-Out to Emphasis on Alternate Strategies (duration of FMD response)

Size of FMD Outbreak (in terms of

animals, premises,

and jurisdictions

affected)

Six Types of FMD Outbreaks

15

Controlled Movement of Swine in an FMD Outbreak

– At the beginning of an outbreak• No new movements initiated from the FMD

control area• 1,000,000 pigs on the road each day

– Some will have come from the control area– ~400,000 to 500,000 hogs and sows slaughtered

daily

– Restarting movement• Depends on the type of outbreak

Implementation of the SPS Plan Pilot Project on a Production Site

SPS Plan Pilot Project

Successfully implement the components of the SPS Plan with the pork production operation participating in this Pilot Project• Demonstrate three movements

– Farrowing to nursery– Nursery to finisher– Finisher to harvest facility

• Include all players– Employees, owners, site managers, herd veterinarians– Plant personnel (including FSIS)– State and federal animal health officials– IIAD, NPB

SPS Plan Pilot ProjectOverview

SPS Plan Pilot ProjectSite Selection

Select three sites to include in the Pilot-farrowing, nursery and grow-finish-Enter each site’s information into the spreadsheet

SPS Plan Pilot ProjectSite Selection

SPS Plan Pilot ProjectBiosecurity

Biosecurity• Implement BPS• Site-specific

biosecurity plan• Employee

Training• Third Party

Verification


Written site-specific Biosecurity plan -explain how the site meets all the Biosecurity Performance Standards (BPS)


Feedback• All BPS can be implemented onsite

with a couple revisions– Deliveries, especially propane– Manure handling– Carcass handling– Additional options for securing farm

entry


Employee Training


Employee Training‘Do Not Bring Disease to the Site’

Each module includes a quiz.


Can retake quizzes

SPS Plan Pilot Project

Biosecurity Training Feedback • Group training• Reduce passing score to 80%• Modify the most frequently missed

questions• Translate to Spanish


Third Party Verifier reviews the site-specific biosecurity plan and performs an evaluation of the site to ensure all the BPS have been met.


Feedback received• Verification that all BPS have been met is

one of the most important components• State animal health officials need to trust

the individuals performing the verifications

SPS Plan Pilot ProjectSurveillance

AOS• Herd Health

Monitor Training

• Begin recording observations 15 days prior to movement


6 lessons with 4 quizzes


6 lessons each with a quiz


HHM scores


Herd Health Monitor Training Feedback• Group training as with biosecurity• Cross reference those who

participated in training and those making the observations in the barns

• Translate to Spanish


Feedback• Add a comment box when entering so can

explain unusual death loss• Integrate with PQA forms

SPS Plan Pilot ProjectEpidemiology

Epi questionnaire


Purpose of the Epi questionnaire• Help the Incident Management

Team evaluate animal disease risk factors when requests for animal movements are being considered


Feedback

• Determine how long the completed questionnaire is good for

• Revise questions

SPS Movement Permit

Once animals are ready to be moved -enter all data on portal-complete a movement permit request

SPS Movement Permit Request

SPS Sample Collection and Testing

Surveillance-not performed for the Pilot Project-problem if samples tested false positive for CSF

Incident Command Reviews Permit Request

• Incident Command

AgCONNECT

AgCONNECT

AOS data

AgCONNECT

Finisher Movements

SPS Evaluations

Employees, Students and Managers-Biosecurity and HHM Training-Implementing AOS on the site

Veterinarian-Implementing BPS on the site

Biosecurity Verifier-Guidance needed

Incident Command-Permitting Process-BPS, Training, AOS

For More Information

• For more information on the Secure Pork Supply, access the following website: www.securepork.org

For More Information

• The phases and types of an FMD outbreak document is available at: www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/phases-and-types-of-an-fmd-outbreak

• NAHEMS guidelines: Vaccination for contagious diseases; Appendix A: foot-and-mouth disease: www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/fad-prep-nahems-appendix-a-vaccination-for-foot-and-mouth-disease

• USDA APHIS FMD Response Plan: The Red Book: www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/emergency_management/

Thank you!

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