Betagro Biosecurity Management aims at reducing risks of diseases in livestock with emphasis on integrated management. This covers physical management such as farm and husbandry structures, process management including production process risk evaluation and control standard setting. It also covers building staff’s awareness, knowledge and ability particularly to prevent diseases from entering the farms or limit the spread of the epidemic in the entire supply chain from feed mills, farms, animal catching and transportation to the processing plants.
Betagro Biosecurity Management System has 3 main elements as follows:
- Animal isolation – It means keeping animals in the controlled environment and separating animals according to their age groups. For poultry and swine operations, All-In/All-Out Management System is used to allow moving the whole groups of animals in or out from one place at the same time so that the place can be cleaned and disinfected periodically to terminate the disease cycle.
- Transportation control – This covers the routes to the farms and within the farms. According to the measures to bring vehicles into the farms, the steps consists of selecting ensured clean transportation vehicles and avoiding the routes with possible epidemic. For traffic within the farms, the routes are specified and separated to reduce risks of spreading diseases.
- Cleaning and disinfection – This includes disinfection of materials, people and equipment entering the farms as well as the cleanliness of farm personnel. In particular, Betagro prepares clean farm materials which have been disinfected such as equipment and tool sets for staff and visitors as per the Good Agricultural Practice or GAP.
