The document describes a pilot project to test a Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan that would allow the safe movement of pigs within a production system during a foreign animal disease outbreak. The project would demonstrate moving pigs from farrowing to nursery facilities, from nurseries to finishers, and from finishers to processing plants. It involves implementing biosecurity protocols, surveillance programs, and obtaining movement permits. The goal is to establish procedures to continuously operate pork production while preventing the spread of disease during an outbreak. Feedback was provided on training programs, verification processes, and the movement permit system.

1. Secure Pork Supply Plan Pilot
Project
A Continuity of Business Plan for the Pork
Industry in the Face of a Foreign Animal Disease
Pam Zaabel, DVM
Center for Food Security and Public Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State University

2. Today’s Discussion
Why a Secure Pork Supply (SPS) Plan is
needed
What the SPS Plan is
Implementation of the SPS Plan Pilot
Project on a Production Site

3. Why a Secure Pork Supply
(SPS) Plan is needed

4. Global Prevalence of FMDv
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has
• 178 member countries:
– 96 countries are endemic
(“have it”) and have never
been free of FMD
– 66 countries free of FMD
– 11 countries have free
zones either with or
without vaccination
– 5 countries were free and
recently suffered from a
re-emergence of FMD
Leon, E. A. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 59 (Suppl. 1) pages 1-14, 2012

5. The United States has had Nine Outbreaks of
FMD
1870, 1880 and 1884: Due to importation of
infected animals. Since the development of a
Federal system of inspection and quarantine
of imported livestock, no outbreak has been
attributed to admission of live animals.
1902, 1908, 1914, 1924 (two separate
outbreaks) and 1929
All outbreaks were controlled by stop
movement and stamping out

6. North American Animal Agriculture
Industry is Unique
Herd size:
• >50,000 cattle
feedlots
• >5,000 cow dairies
• >70,000 calf ranches
• >20,000 sows

7. United States Animal Agriculture
Industry is Unique
Extensive mobility of
animals, products, feed
• ~1,000,000 swine in
transit daily
• 400,000 to 500,000 to
slaughter
• ~400,000 cattle in transit
per day
• ~94,000 commercial cattle
slaughter per day
• Auction markets, fairs,
exhibitions?
• Sheep, goats, others?

8. US Animal Agriculture is Highly Vulnerable
to Foreign Animal Diseases (FADs)
• US production animals have no immunity to
FADs
• Export markets will be lost and prices will
drop dramatically
• Stop movement orders will be issued
• Emergency FMD vaccine stocks are far below
what would be required to address a
livestock dense state or multi-state outbreak
• The size, structure, efficiency, and extensive
movement inherent in the U.S. livestock
industries will present unprecedented
challenges in the event of a FAD outbreak

9. What is the Secure Pork
Supply (SPS) Plan?

10. Secure Pork Supply Plan
(Funded by USDA APHIS VS and NPB)
Develop procedures to allow the safe
movement of animals with no evidence of
infection in a FAD control zone to a pork
processing plant or to other sites to
accommodate different stages of production.

11. Secure Pork Supply Plan Partners
• SPS Planning Committee
– Federal and State officials
– Representatives of all phases of the
swine industry
– NPB, NPPC, AASV
– Academia
• Iowa State University
• University of Minnesota
• Funded by USDA APHIS and NPB

12. FADs included in SPS plan
• Foot and mouth disease
– Swine, cattle, sheep, goats, deer
• Classical swine fever
• African swine fever
• Swine vesicular disease
PIADC
Foot and Mouth
Disease : 7 days
post infection

13. North American Animal Agriculture
Industry is Unique
Strategies for the response to, and
management of, a FAD outbreak will
change as the outbreak progresses
and will depend upon the magnitude,
location and other characteristics of
the outbreak.

14. Phases and Types of FMD
Response
http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/phases-and-types-of-an-fmd-outbreak

15. FMD Detection in the United States:
Types of an FMD Outbreak
Type 6:
Catastrophic
North
American
Response Shifts from Emphasis on Stamping-Out
to Emphasis on Alternate Strategies (duration of FMD response)
Size of FMD
Outbreak
(in terms of
animals,
premises,
and
jurisdictions
affected)
Six Types of FMD Outbreaks
15

16. Controlled Movement of Swine
in an FMD Outbreak
– At the beginning of an outbreak
• No new movements initiated from the FMD
control area
• 1,000,000 pigs on the road each day
– Some will have come from the control area
– ~400,000 to 500,000 hogs and sows slaughtered
daily
– Restarting movement
• Depends on the type of outbreak

17. Implementation of the SPS
Plan Pilot Project on a
Production Site

18. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Successfully implement the components of
the SPS Plan with the pork production
operation participating in this Pilot Project
• Demonstrate three movements
– Farrowing to nursery
– Nursery to finisher
– Finisher to harvest facility
• Include all players
– Employees, owners, site managers, herd veterinarians
– Plant personnel (including FSIS)
– State and federal animal health officials
– IIAD, NPB

19. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

20. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Site Selection
Select three sites to
include in the Pilot
-farrowing, nursery
and grow-finish
-Enter each site’s
information into the
spreadsheet

21. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Site Selection

22. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

23. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Biosecurity
• Implement BPS
• Site-specific
biosecurity plan
• Employee
Training
• Third Party
Verification

24. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Written site-specific
Biosecurity plan
-explain how the
site meets all the
Biosecurity
Performance
Standards (BPS)

25. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity

26. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Feedback
• All BPS can be implemented onsite
with a couple revisions
– Deliveries, especially propane
– Manure handling
– Carcass handling
– Additional options for securing farm
entry

27. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Employee Training

28. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Employee Training
‘Do Not Bring
Disease to the Site’
Each module
includes a quiz.

29. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Can retake quizzes

30. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity

31. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity Training Feedback
• Group training
• Reduce passing score to 80%
• Modify the most frequently missed
questions
• Translate to Spanish

32. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Third Party Verifier reviews the site-specific
biosecurity plan and performs an evaluation
of the site to ensure all the BPS have been
met.

33. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Biosecurity
Feedback received
• Verification that all BPS have been met is
one of the most important components
• State animal health officials need to trust
the individuals performing the verifications

34. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

35. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance
AOS
• Herd Health
Monitor
Training
• Begin
recording
observations
15 days prior
to movement

36. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance
6 lessons with 4
quizzes

37. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance
6 lessons each
with a quiz

38. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance

39. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance

40. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance
HHM scores

41. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance

42. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance
Herd Health Monitor Training Feedback
• Group training as with biosecurity
• Cross reference those who
participated in training and those
making the observations in the barns
• Translate to Spanish

43. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance

44. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance

45. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Surveillance
Feedback
• Add a comment box when entering so can
explain unusual death loss
• Integrate with PQA forms

46. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

47. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Epidemiology
Epi questionnaire

48. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Epidemiology
Purpose of the Epi questionnaire
• Help the Incident Management
Team evaluate animal disease risk
factors when requests for animal
movements are being considered

49. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Epidemiology

50. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Epidemiology
Feedback
• Determine how long the completed
questionnaire is good for
• Revise questions

51. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

52. SPS Movement Permit
Once animals are ready to be moved
-enter all data on portal
-complete a movement permit
request

53. SPS Movement Permit Request

54. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

55. SPS Sample Collection and
Testing
Surveillance
-not performed for the Pilot Project
-problem if samples tested false positive for CSF

56. SPS Plan Pilot Project
Overview

57. Incident Command Reviews
Permit Request
• Incident Command

58. AgCONNECT

59. AgCONNECT

60. AgCONNECT
AOS
data

61. AgCONNECT
Finisher Movements

62. AgCONNECT
Finisher Movements

63. SPS Evaluations
Employees, Students and Managers
-Biosecurity and HHM Training
-Implementing AOS on the site
Veterinarian
-Implementing BPS on the site
Biosecurity Verifier
-Guidance needed
Incident Command
-Permitting Process
-BPS, Training, AOS

64. For More Information
• For more information on the Secure Pork Supply, access the
following website: www.securepork.org

65. For More Information
• The phases and types of an FMD outbreak document is
available at:
www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/phases-and-types-of-an-fmd-
outbreak
• NAHEMS guidelines: Vaccination for contagious diseases;
Appendix A: foot-and-mouth disease:
www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/fad-prep-nahems-appendix-a-
vaccination-for-foot-and-mouth-disease
• USDA APHIS FMD Response Plan: The Red Book:
www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/emergency_managemen
t/

66. Thank you!
Questions and Comments:
zaabelp@iastate.edu