Biosecurity supporting measures are all materials and practices that aim at supporting the implementation of biosecurity measures in the livestock production. This includes materials and practices consulted by stakeholders on a voluntary basis or mandatory by institutions such as the government or sector organizations.
If you have suggestions for supporting measures to be included on this page or have any questions, please reach out to Evelien Biebaut at Evelien.Biebaut@UGent.be.
Pig
Type: online course-webinar
Language: Italian
Issued by: SuiVet
Target audience: all stakeholders working with pigs (e.g. farm manager, worker, owner / biosecurity auditors / animal transportation companies)
Type: online course-webinar
Language: French
Issued by: IFIP
Target audience: all stakeholders working with pigs (e.g. farm manager, worker, owner / biosecurity auditors / animal transportation companies)
Type: online course-webinar
Language: English / Danish / Romanian / Ukrainian
Issued by: SEGES
Target audience: farm manager, worker, owner
Focus: Swine Influenza Virus
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Danish
Issued by: Landbrug & Fødevarer
Target audience: farm manager, worker, owner
Publication year: 2013 with latest update in 2022
Link: https://svineproduktion.dk/viden/om-grisen/sundhed/forebyggelse/smittebeskyttelse
Type: checks-audits
Language: Spanish
Mandatory: yes
Frequency: recurrent but variable
Audit performed by: official veterinary services or public health authorities
Link: https://www.mapa.gob.es/bioseguridad-buenas-practicas/porcino_bioseg.aspx
Type: online course-webinar
Language: Danish
Issued by: Statens Serum Institut
Target audience: all stakeholders working with live pigs
Focus: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Type: online course-webinar
Language: English / Danish / Ukrainian
Issued by: SEGES
Target audience: Farm worker, owner, manager
Focus: PRRS virus
Link: https://www.landbrugsinfo.dk/sygdomme_kursus_sanering_prrs_virus
Type: online course-webinar
Language: English / Danish
Issued by: SEGES
Target audience: Farm worker, owner, manager
Type: online course-webinar / training
Language: Dutch
Issued by: KPV
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Focus: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Link: https://leerpleinkpv.nl/
Type: book-manual-guidelines / checks-audits
Language: French
Issued by: IFIP
Target audience: all stakeholders working with pigs
Type: financial support
Language: Italian
Issued by: National government or regional administrations of Italy
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Focus: biosecurity measures to prevent introduction of African Swine Fever such as fencing, hygiene lock, disinfection area for vehicles, proper carcass storage place, mesh window, hot/cold water pressure wash, dedicated manure collection area, etc.
Link: https://www.anmvioggi.it/psa-aperto-un-bando-per-la-biosicurezza.html
https://padova.coldiretti.it/news/investimenti-biosicurezze-negli-allevamenti-suinicoli
https://www.anmvioggi.it/epizoozie-nel-codice-della-protezione-civile.html
https://agricoltura.regione.emilia-romagna.it/biosicurezza
Type: other
Language: Italian
Issued by: IZSVe
Target audience: farm owner, worker, manager / veterinarians / farm advisors
Focus: African Swine Fever
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Spanish
Publication year: 2022
Issued by: Interporc
Target audience: all stakeholders working with pigs
Focus: African Swine Fever
Link: https://interporc.com/2022/02/17/la-bioseguridad-es-tu-responsabilidad?cat=actualidad/descargas
Poultry
Type: online course-webinar
Language: English
Issued by: NetPoulSafe European project
Target audience: all stakeholders working with poultry
Publication year: 2023
Species: poultry
Type: other
Language: Dutch / English / French / Hungarian / Italian / Polish / Spanish
Issued by: NetPoulSafe European project
Target audience: all stakeholders working with poultry
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: French
Issued by: ITAVI
Target audience: all stakeholders working with poultry
Publication year: regularly updated
Focus: Avian Influenza
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Dutch / English
Publication year: 2024
Issued by: NetPoulSafe European project
Target audience: all stakeholders working with poultry
Link: https://eufarmbook.eu/NetPoulSafe_handbook
https://www.zlto.nl/paginas/projecten/netpoulsafe
Type: online course-webinar
Language: Dutch
Issued by: AVINED
Target audience: all persons entering the poultry farm
Focus: Avian Influenza
Link: https://www.avined.nl/samen-voor-bioveiligheid-in-strijd-tegen-vogelgriep
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Dutch
Issued by: AVINED
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Focus: Avian Influenza
Link: https://www.avined.nl/themas/bedrijfsmanagement/bedrijfshygiene
Type: other
Language: Dutch
Issued by: POV / Vitale Varkenshouderij
Target audience: all stakeholders working with poultry
Focus: award for the farm with the best shower facility or best cleaning and disinfection place for trucks/transporters
Type: financial support
Language: French
Issued by: National government of France
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Focus: biosecurity measures related to the disinfection of equipment, management of carcasses, sanitary premises and mesh windows
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Spanish
Issued by: MAPA
Target audience: all stakeholders working with poultry
Focus: Avian Influenza / Salmonella
Cattle
Type: online course-webinar
Language: Danish / English
Issued by: SEGES
Target audience: all stakeholders working with cattle
Type: coaching
Language: Italian
Issued by: Setup Farm
Mandatory: voluntary
Goal: improving the farm structure and management/biosecurity to increase the profitability of the farm
Coaching performed by: company experts
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Italian
Publication year: 2022
Issued by: Centro Ricerche Produzioni Animali
Target audience: farm owner, worker, manager / veterinarians / farm advisors
Link: https://www.ruminantia.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RRN_Rapporto_Zootecnia_Benessere_Animale.pdf
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Italian
Publication year: 2018 but regularly revised
Target audience: farm owner, worker, manager / veterinarians / farm advisors
Focus: Increasing biosecurity to reduce the use of antimicrobials. Main focus on gastrointestinal and respiratory disease, mastitis and foot pathologies.
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Estonian
Publication year: 2021
Issued by: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Agricultural Registers and Information Board of Estonia
Target audience: farm owner, worker, manager / veterinarians
Link: https://www.pikk.ee/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Piimafarmide_bioturvalisus_netti.pdf
Type: training
Format: face-to-face
Language: Estonian
Frequency: approximately once every two years
Issued by: Eesti Maaülikool
Target audience: farm owner, worker, manager / veterinarians
Type: coaching
Language: English / Estonian
Issued by: Piimaklaster
Mandatory: voluntary
Goal: improving the farm biosecurity to improve the health status of the farm as part of the ‘herd health program for dairy herds’
Coaching performed by: independent veterinarian
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Type: checks-audits / training
Language: Swedish
Mandatory: no
Frequency: every 18-24 months
Audit performed by: veterinarians
Issued by: Växa
Target audience: farm owner, manager
Link: https://www.vxa.se/fakta/smittskydd/smittsakrad-besattning/
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: English
Issued by: AHI
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Link: https://animalhealthireland.ie/resources/?q=&resource_type%5B%5D=documents&prog%5B%5D=biosecurity
Multiple Species
Species: pigs / poultry
Type: online course-webinar/training
Language: Italian
Issued by: UnaItalia
Target audience: all stakeholders working with pigs and poultry
Species: cattle / small ruminants
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: French / English
Issued by: GDS France
Target audience: all stakeholders working with ruminants
Species: pigs / poultry
Type: checks-audits
Language: English
Mandatory: yes, for farms certified under Bord Bia
Frequency: yearly
Audit performed by: herd veterinarian or farm veterinary advisor
Tool: Biocheck.Ugent surveys
Link: https://www.bordbia.ie/farmers-growers/
https://biocheckgent.com/en
Species: pigs / poultry
Type: checks-audits
Language: Dutch / French
Mandatory: yes
Frequency: yearly
Audit performed by: herd veterinarian or farm veterinary advisor
Tool: FarmFit by using the Biocheck.Ugent surveys
Link: https://farmfit.be/bioveiligheidsaudit/
https://biocheckgent.com/nl
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle / small ruminants
Type: online course-webinar
Language: Dutch / English
Issued by: Biocheck.UGent
Target audience: all livestock stakeholders
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle / small ruminants
Type: online course-webinar
Language: Italian
Issued by: UNIBO
Target audience: all livestock stakeholders and veterinary students
Link: https://book.unibo.it/courses/course-v1:Unibo+BDA101+2023_E1/about
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle / small ruminants
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: English
Publication year: 2018
Target audience: all livestock stakeholders
Link: https://shop.acco.be/Biosecurity-in-animal-production-and-veterinary-medicine
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle / small ruminants
Type: training
Format: online or face-to-face
Language: English
Frequency: yearly open online or on request
Issued by: Biocheck.UGent
Target audience: veterinarians and farm advisors
Species: pigs / poultry
Type: coaching
Language: Dutch / French
Mandatory: yes, in case of systematically high antimicrobial usage on the farm
Goal: reducing the use of antimicrobials by improving the farm biosecurity
Coaching performed by: independent veterinarian
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Link: https://www.belplume.be/AB-Coach
https://belpork.be/fr/politique-antibiotique/
Species: pigs / cattle /small ruminants
Type: coaching
Language: Italian
Mandatory: no, voluntary to support farmers in the Piedmont area
Goal: improving productivity by improving biosecurity and animal welfare
Coaching performed by: qualified technicians e.g. veterinarian, zootechnician, biologist, agronomist
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle /small ruminants
Type: coaching / check-audit
Language: worldwide
Issued by: MS Schippers
Mandatory: voluntary
Goal: improving hygiene management on farms. The HyCheck application can be used to assess hygiene indicators on the farm to score the overall hygiene score.
Coaching performed by: company experts
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle
Type: checks-audits
Language: English / German /Italian
Mandatory: yes, for some farms
Frequency: variable
Audit performed by: depending on the species it is the herd veterinarian (cattle), a public veterinarian (poultry, pigs) or the farmer as a self-assessment (pigs)
Tool: assessing biosecurity on farms can be done using different preformed biosecurity checklists and questionnaires. These data are entered and stored on the ClassyFarm IT platform together with other farm specific information such as the use of antimicrobials, animal welfare data, production data, etc. The goal is to classify farms according to their risk to public veterinary health
Species: cattle / small ruminants
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Italian
Publication year: 2018
Issued by: IZSLER / CReNBA
Target audience: farm owner, worker, manager / veterinarians / farm advisors
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle / small ruminants
Type: checks-audits
Language: English / Estonian
Mandatory: yes
Frequency: variable but recurrent
Audit performed by: Official vet services or public health authorities
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle / small ruminants
Type: financial support
Language: Estonian
Issued by: National government of Estonia
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Species: pigs / poultry / cattle
Type: book-manual-guidelines
Language: Dutch
Issued by: Inagro
Target audience: farm worker, owner, manager
Link: https://inagro.be/teelt-en-dier/dieren/varkens/hoe-kan-ik-de-bioveiligheid-op-mijn-bedrijf-verhogen
