Monitoring biosecurity in poultry production: an overview of databases reporting biosecurity compliance from seven European countries

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Veterinary Science

Sandra Sevilla-Navarro¹  Aitor Devesa¹  László Kovács²  Alessandra Piccirillo³  Giuditta Tilli³  Jeroen Dewulf⁴  Arthi Amalraj⁴  Piotr Szeleszczuk⁵  Artur Zbikowski⁵  Ákos Bernard Jóźwiak⁶  Mattias Delpont⁷  Luis G. Salazar⁷  Jean-Luc Guérin⁷  Mathilde C. Paul⁷  Anne-Christine Dufay-Lefort⁸  Nathalie Rousset⁸  Annick Spaans⁹  Hilde van Meirhaege^1,10 

[1] Centro de Calidad Avícola y Alimentación Animal de la Comunidad Valenciana (CECAV), Castellón, Spain;Department of Animal Hygiene, Herd Health and Mobile Clinic, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary;Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy;Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium;Department of Pathology and Veterinary Diagnostics, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;Digital Food Chain Education, Research, Development and Innovation Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary;IHAP, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France;ITAVI, Institut Technique de l'Aviculture, Pisciculture et Cuniculture, Paris, France;Southern Agriculture and Horticulture Organization, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands;Vetworks BV, Aalter, Belgium;

关键词: prevention;    surveillance;    audits;    avian influenza;    broilers;    egg layers;    turkeys;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fvets.2023.1231377

 received in 2023-05-30, accepted in 2023-08-04,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Compliance with required on-farm biosecurity practices reduces the risk of contamination and spread of zoonotic and economically important diseases. With repeating avian influenza epidemics in the poultry industry, the need to monitor and improve the overall level of biosecurity is increasing. In practice, biosecurity compliance is assessed by various actors (e.g., academic, private and public institutions), and the results of such assessments may be recorded and gathered in databases which are seldom shared or thoroughly analyzed. This study aimed to provide an inventory of databases related to the assessment of biosecurity in poultry farms in seven major poultry-producing European countries to highlight challenges and opportunities associated with biosecurity data collection, sharing, and use. The institutions in charge of these databases were contacted and interviewed using a structured questionnaire to gather information on the main characteristics of the databases and the context of their implementation. A total of 20 databases were identified, covering the gamut of poultry species and production types. Most databases were linked to veterinary health authorities or academia, and to a lesser extent interbranch organizations. Depending on the institutions in charge, the databases serve various purposes, from providing advice to enforcing regulations. The quality of the biosecurity data collected is believed to be quite reliable, as biosecurity is mostly assessed by trained farm advisors or official veterinarians and during a farm visit. Some of the databases are difficult to analyze and/or do not offer information concerning which biosecurity measures are most or least respected. Moreover, some key biosecurity practices are sometimes absent from certain databases. Although the databases serve a variety of purposes and cover different production types, each with specific biosecurity features, their analysis should help to improve the surveillance of biosecurity in the poultry sector and provide evidence on the benefits of biosecurity.

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Copyright © 2023 Delpont, Salazar, Dewulf, Zbikowski, Szeleszczuk, Dufay-Lefort, Rousset, Spaans, Amalraj, Tilli, Piccirillo, Devesa, Sevilla-Navarro, van Meirhaege, Kovács, Jóźwiak, Guérin and Paul.