A project led by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has developed a test method to improve the likelihood of identifying Campylobacter-positive chicken flocks.
Being able to identify Campylobacter-positive flocks before they arrive at the slaughterhouse allows them to be slaughtered after the negative flocks to avoid cross-contamination along the production line.
The method was worked on in the EU project, AIR-SAMPLE, which began in January 2018 and runs until June 2020. Other partners are the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “Giuseppe Caporale” in Italy, Veterinary Research Institute in the Czech Republic, National Veterinary Research Institute in Poland and Norwegian Veterinary Institute.
The aim was to develop and validate air sampling as a low-cost and multi-purpose alternative to fecal droppings or boot swabs for surveillance, monitoring and eradication of Campylobacter in confined and biosecured broiler production operations.
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