Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Pork Industry Health and Safety Training – Seminars and Online Courses
January 30, 2009By Kelley Donham
This program was designed to provide training in occupational health and safety to managers and workers while enhancing the National Pork Board’s occupational health and safety materials...
Public Health - Salmonella
Salmonellosis from Pork Products: A Quantitative Risk Assessment
June 30, 2008By Emma Hartnett
We developed a farm-to-illness risk assessment to investigate the risk of human salmonellosis from the consumption of fresh pork. The risk assessment explores major issues in both pre-harvest and...
Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Development and Testing of a Hydrogen Sulfide Detection System for Swine Housing
May 1, 2008By Robert Burns
Hazards conditions to human and animal health can occur in swine barns due to sudden bursts of high concentration hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas released when manure slurry is agitated during removal...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
E. coli O157:H7 prevalence and characterization from NAHMS 2006 swine fecal samples
February 13, 2008By Stan Bailey
The objectives of the current study were to use the 2006 swine NAHMS samples to determine the prevalence, antimicrobial characterization, and genetic profile of E. coli O157:H7 in the U.S. swine herd...
Public Health - Other
Understanding health-related microbial, odor, and ammonia fate following swine lagoon wastewater application by center pivot irrigation
February 20, 2007By Jeanette Thurston-Enriquez
Microorganisms are present in animal wastewater. These microorganisms may include those important in human and animal disease. Animal wastewater may also contain ammonia and compounds that produce...
Public Health - Other
Development of methods for determining the estrogen content of swine wastes
July 14, 2006By Charles Scott Whisnant
Measurable levels of estrogens were found in lagoons from all types of production with boars and sows being higher than finishing units. The number of nursery units sampled was limited but those...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Special Call for Review of the Critical Literature: Fate and Transport of Antibiotic Residues and Antibiotic Resistance Genetic Determinants during Manure Storage, Treatment, and Land Application with emphasis on the Environmental Persistence and Transferability of these Determinants
March 24, 2006By Roderick Mackie
Public Health - Other
Fate of Estrogens in Pig Waste
February 9, 2006By Dr. Ashok K Singh
As discussed earlier, about 2.3 x 108 kg of manure is generated each day in the US by the pig industry. Manure is land applied because its value in supplying nutrients to crops as well as of...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Relationship between Antibiotics in Water and Rates of Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Transfer
January 12, 2006By Randall Singer
There is growing concern about the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic residues in the environment. These compounds can potentially have selective effects on bacteria, thus amplifying the resistance...
Public Health - Other
Quantifying Overland and Vertical Transport of Pathogens as Affected ByVegetated Buffer Strips
March 24, 2005By Adel Shirmohammadi
