Truck wash facilities in western Canada are using new rating system to determine if they are meeting biosecurity criteria.
One of the goals of the Western Canadian Swine Transport Wash Program (WCSTWP) is to make sure employees are following the proper wash procedures.
Mark Fynn is the manager of Animal Health and Welfare Programs with Manitoba Pork.
He says the program was developed in the summer of 2014 to help fight the PED outbreak.
"We identified truck and transport biosecurity as being a fairly critical part of PEDv and so we wanted to make sure that we assessed wash facilities to make sure that they're meeting a certain standard to be able to keep the disease as bay."
Source : PortageOnline