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. 2019 May 28:6:146.
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00146. eCollection 2019.

Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by U.S. Swine Producers

Christopher C Pudenz  1 , Lee L Schulz  1 , Glynn T Tonsor  2
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Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by U.S. Swine Producers

Christopher C Pudenz et al. Front Vet Sci. .

Abstract

There is mounting concern about the negative animal health and supply chain consequences of animal disease outbreaks in the United States. Recent disease outbreaks have drawn attention to the need for additional understanding of biosecurity efforts to reduce disease frequency, spread, and impact. Biosecurity is a key component of the Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan designed to provide business continuity in the event of a foreign animal disease outbreak as well as help protect operations from endemic diseases. Core biosecurity recommendations outlined in the SPS Plan are a written site-specific biosecurity plan and implementation of a perimeter buffer area and a line of separation. To-date, no benchmarking of SPS Plan biosecurity implementation has been done. Utilizing data from a 2017 survey of U.S. swine producers, this study shows that SPS Plan biosecurity adoption varies and is affected by how feasible producers believe implementation of each biosecurity practice is on their operation. Furthermore, binomial logit regression analyses indicate producer and operation demographics and producer risk attitudes and perceptions affect biosecurity adoption. Conditional probabilities reveal that adoption of biosecurity practices is overwhelmingly complementary, suggesting that one biosecurity practice likely increases marginal efficacy of another biosecurity practice. The insights this study provides regarding the complexities of biosecurity adoption are vitally important to both educators and policy makers.

Keywords: Secure Pork Supply Plan; animal health economics; biosecurity adoption; foreign animal diseases; pig; swine.

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Example perimeter buffer area and line of separation questions from a 2017 survey of U.S. swine producers.
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