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What is a biosecurity measure? A definition proposal for animal production and linked processing operations

While biosecurity, a central component of the One Health concept, is clearly defined, a harmonized definition of the term ´biosecurity measure´ (BSM) is missing. In turn, particularly at the farm and policy level, this leads to misunderstandings, low acceptance, poor implementation, and thus subopti...

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Autores principales: Huber, Nikolaus, Andraud, Mathieu, Sassu, Elena L., Prigge, Christopher, Zoche-Golob, Veit, Käsbohrer, Annemarie, D'Angelantonio, Daniela, Viltrop, Arvo, Żmudzki, Jacek, Jones, Hannah, Smith, Richard P., Tobias, Tijs, Burow, Elke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36277103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100433
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author Huber, Nikolaus
Andraud, Mathieu
Sassu, Elena L.
Prigge, Christopher
Zoche-Golob, Veit
Käsbohrer, Annemarie
D'Angelantonio, Daniela
Viltrop, Arvo
Żmudzki, Jacek
Jones, Hannah
Smith, Richard P.
Tobias, Tijs
Burow, Elke
author_facet Huber, Nikolaus
Andraud, Mathieu
Sassu, Elena L.
Prigge, Christopher
Zoche-Golob, Veit
Käsbohrer, Annemarie
D'Angelantonio, Daniela
Viltrop, Arvo
Żmudzki, Jacek
Jones, Hannah
Smith, Richard P.
Tobias, Tijs
Burow, Elke
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description While biosecurity, a central component of the One Health concept, is clearly defined, a harmonized definition of the term ´biosecurity measure´ (BSM) is missing. In turn, particularly at the farm and policy level, this leads to misunderstandings, low acceptance, poor implementation, and thus suboptimal biosecurity along the food animal production chain. Moreover, different views on BSMs affects making comparisons both at the policy level as well as in the scientific community. Therefore, as part of the One Health EJP BIOPIGEE project, a work group i) collected and discussed relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria for measures to be considered in the context of biosecurity and ii) conducted a systematic literature review for potentially existing definitions for the term BSM. This exercise confirmed the lack of a definition of BSM, underlining the importance of the topic. In the pool of articles considered relevant to defining the term BSM, specific research themes were identified. Based on these outcomes, we propose a definition of the term BSM: “A biosecurity measure (BSM) – is the implementation of a segregation, hygiene, or management procedure (excluding medically effective feed additives and preventive/curative treatment of animals) that specifically aims at reducing the probability of the introduction, establishment, survival, or spread of any potential pathogen to, within, or from a farm, operation or geographical area.” The definition provides a basis for policymakers to identify factual BSMs, highlights the point of implementation and supports to achieve the necessary quality standards of biosecurity in food animal production. It also enables clear, harmonized, cross-sectoral communication of best biosecurity practices to and from relevant stakeholders and thus contribute to improving biosecurity and thereby strengthen the One Health approach.
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spelling pubmed-95825552022-10-21 What is a biosecurity measure? A definition proposal for animal production and linked processing operations Huber, Nikolaus Andraud, Mathieu Sassu, Elena L. Prigge, Christopher Zoche-Golob, Veit Käsbohrer, Annemarie D'Angelantonio, Daniela Viltrop, Arvo Żmudzki, Jacek Jones, Hannah Smith, Richard P. Tobias, Tijs Burow, Elke One Health Review Paper While biosecurity, a central component of the One Health concept, is clearly defined, a harmonized definition of the term ´biosecurity measure´ (BSM) is missing. In turn, particularly at the farm and policy level, this leads to misunderstandings, low acceptance, poor implementation, and thus suboptimal biosecurity along the food animal production chain. Moreover, different views on BSMs affects making comparisons both at the policy level as well as in the scientific community. Therefore, as part of the One Health EJP BIOPIGEE project, a work group i) collected and discussed relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria for measures to be considered in the context of biosecurity and ii) conducted a systematic literature review for potentially existing definitions for the term BSM. This exercise confirmed the lack of a definition of BSM, underlining the importance of the topic. In the pool of articles considered relevant to defining the term BSM, specific research themes were identified. Based on these outcomes, we propose a definition of the term BSM: “A biosecurity measure (BSM) – is the implementation of a segregation, hygiene, or management procedure (excluding medically effective feed additives and preventive/curative treatment of animals) that specifically aims at reducing the probability of the introduction, establishment, survival, or spread of any potential pathogen to, within, or from a farm, operation or geographical area.” The definition provides a basis for policymakers to identify factual BSMs, highlights the point of implementation and supports to achieve the necessary quality standards of biosecurity in food animal production. It also enables clear, harmonized, cross-sectoral communication of best biosecurity practices to and from relevant stakeholders and thus contribute to improving biosecurity and thereby strengthen the One Health approach. Elsevier 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9582555/ /pubmed/36277103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100433 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Andraud, Mathieu
Sassu, Elena L.
Prigge, Christopher
Zoche-Golob, Veit
Käsbohrer, Annemarie
D'Angelantonio, Daniela
Viltrop, Arvo
Żmudzki, Jacek
Jones, Hannah
Smith, Richard P.
Tobias, Tijs
Burow, Elke
What is a biosecurity measure? A definition proposal for animal production and linked processing operations
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36277103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100433
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