The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD), one of FAO’s oldest Commissions, came into being on the 12th June 1954, with the pledge of the sixth founding member state to the principles of a coordinated and common action against Foot-and-mouth Disease.

1. U.S. Secure Beef Supply Plan:
Preparing for FMD
MW Sanderson, CJ Hanthorn,
Center for Outcomes Research & Epidemiology
Kansas State University
DA Bickett-Weddle, RD Dewell, MJ Lee, JA Roth
Center for Food Security and Public Health
Iowa State University
EUFMD Open Session
Borgia Egnazia, Italy
October, 2018

2. Secure Beef Supply
Working Groups
• Managed Movement
• Biosecurity
• Surveillance
• Managing Infected Premises
• Control the outbreak without destroying the
industry
• Goal: Facilitate movement of animals with no
evidence of FMD infection
• Guidance only – Responsible Officials will
make decisions based on outbreak
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3. Stop Movement
• Extensive Nationwide
movement of cattle
• Initial stop
movement order
72 hour

4. Managed Movement of Animals
in an FMD Response
• Beginning of outbreak
– Control Area’s established
and Movement restrictions
put in place
– Days to weeks before we
have confidence animals
can move without causing
disease spread
– Contingency planning for
beef operations – manage
without movement
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5. Restarting Animal
Movement

6. Managed Movement of Animals
• Control Area
Movement Permits
issued by Regulatory
Officials
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7. Enhanced Biosecurity
Keeping FMD off of non-infected
operations
Keeping FMD from leaving
infected operations

8. SBS Plan: Biosecurity
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Enhanced Biosecurity
for Beef Feedlots

9. Principles of Biosecurity for
Secure Food Supply Plans
• It is the Producer’s responsibility to
keep their animals from becoming
infected
• Site-specific biosecurity plan
• Biosecurity Officer develop, monitor
plan
• Line of Separation (LOS) around area
of premises where animals are located
– Nothing should cross LOS that can introduce
virus without cleaning/disinfection

10. Line of Separation
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11. Surveillance
Looking for FMD during
an Outbreak

12. Surveillance to
Permit Movement
• Good Surveillance demonstrates lack
of evidence of FMDv
– Daily cattle monitoring by
trained personnel
– Farm inspections by
Responsible Regulatory
Officials, designees
– Laboratory testing
• Cattle oral swab/fluids PCR test?
– Increased Confidence shipments are safe

13. Prepare for FMD
• Know the signs
– Sharpen FMD
recognition skills
• Train Cattle
Health Monitors
– Resources available
• Record keeping
– Animal, Supply and
People movements
• Establish Biosecurity
plans
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14. Permit Guidance
Secure Beef Supply Plan www.securebeef.org
Permitting Guidance for Movement of
Cattle/Semen/Embryos
Condition
Met?
1. Traceability information available (Origin & Destination
PIN, GPS Coordinates, information on type and number of
animals/quantity of semen/embryos to be moved)
Yes
2. Biosecurity measures in place and acceptable to
Responsible Reg Officials
Yes
3. Epidemiology information is acceptable Yes
4. Destination premises and state are willing to accept the
cattle/semen/embryos
Yes
5. No evidence of infection based on surveillance/testing Yes
6. Permit guidance to move cattle/semen/embryos if
all above responses are “Yes”
Consider Issuing
MOVEMENT
PERMIT

15. www.securebeef.org