Taking biosecurity seriously

Last year, Canada’s Poultry Industry Council, in partnership with the Ontario Government and the University of Guelph, produced a DVD entitled “Practical Biosecurity, from Farmers for Farmers”, writes Dr Peter Hunton for World Poultry. This is a timely reminder that one of the cheapest ways of controlling infectious diseases is to prevent the organisms responsible for them from accessing poultry farms. The first thing that struck me when viewing the video was that there was nothing new