TY - JOUR
T1 - Supporting business continuity during a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak
T2 - A collaboration of industry, academia, and government
AU - Hennessey, Morgan
AU - Lee, Brendan
AU - Goldsmith, Timothy
AU - Halvorson, Dave
AU - Hueston, William
AU - McElroy, Kristina
AU - Waters, Katherine
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Since 2006, a collaborative group of egg industry, state, federal, and academia representatives have worked to enhance preparedness in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) planning. The collaborative group has created a draft egg product movement protocol, which calls for realistic, science-based contingency plans, biosecurity assessments, commodity risk assessments, and real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR testing to support the continuity of egg operations while also preventing and eradicating an HPAI outbreak. The work done by this group serves as an example of how industry, government, and academia can work together to achieve better preparedness in the event of an animal health emergency. In addition, in the event of an HPAI outbreak in domestic poultry, U.S. consumers will be assured that their egg products come from healthy chickens.
AB - Since 2006, a collaborative group of egg industry, state, federal, and academia representatives have worked to enhance preparedness in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) planning. The collaborative group has created a draft egg product movement protocol, which calls for realistic, science-based contingency plans, biosecurity assessments, commodity risk assessments, and real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR testing to support the continuity of egg operations while also preventing and eradicating an HPAI outbreak. The work done by this group serves as an example of how industry, government, and academia can work together to achieve better preparedness in the event of an animal health emergency. In addition, in the event of an HPAI outbreak in domestic poultry, U.S. consumers will be assured that their egg products come from healthy chickens.
KW - Avian influenza
KW - Business continuity
KW - National Response Plan
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U2 - 10.1637/8700-031509-Reg.1
DO - 10.1637/8700-031509-Reg.1
M3 - Article
C2 - 20521666
AN - SCOPUS:77950215185
SN - 0005-2086
VL - 54
SP - 387
EP - 389
JO - Avian diseases
JF - Avian diseases
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -