Mitigating viruses in pig feed ingredients

Viruses could be shipped around the globe in feed ingredients. - Photo: Ruben Keestra
Viruses could be shipped around the globe in feed ingredients. - Photo: Ruben Keestra
While the world is holding its breath every time a new virus breaks out, veterinary researchers in the US and Canada have become particularly interested in the role feed has to play. A team of leading experts dived into the question of how viruses might be shipped around the planet. It was in 2014 that the North American veterinary community – as well as the worldwide feed and pork industries – started to realise that viruses were being transmitted in feed. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED)


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Vincent
ter Beek

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Kees van
Dooren

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Treena
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Treena Hein Correspondent