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Biosafety

It is the development and implementation of a set of strict policies and operational norms that will have the function of protecting animal production against the introduction of any type of infectious agent, whether viruses, bacteria, fungi and/or parasites.

Once there is a continuity solution in the biosafety of a production system and certain pathogen(s) contaminate the herd, the biosafety program must be immediately redesigned and adapted to the new health situation of the system in question.

That is, if it is economically, technically and legally possible to coexist with infectious agents now present in the system, the biosafety program must establish norms (new vaccines, different production flows, separation of production phases, etc., etc.) that enable maximum control of the multiplication and dissemination of these agents as well as a minimum impact on the system productivity.

There are certainly many subtle variations, others not so much, when people define biosafety, but generally, all the definitions of biosafety must mandatorily include the following principles:

Control of the multiplication of endemic biological agents. An uncontrolled growth in the population of these microorganisms can have a chronic negative effect (reduction) in the performance and productivity of herds.
Prevention of herd contamination by highly contagious and potentially lethal organisms. These can have devastating effects on the production system. Control (and prevention) of those infectious agents of importance in public health (zoonosis). The presence of some of these agents, for example, salmonellas, may go unnoticed because they will not always affect the performance of contaminated animals.
Control (and prevention) of those infectious agents of vertical transmission that may affect not only performance and productivity of the progeny but can also be easily disseminated in a large geographical area and affect many independent production systems.

Biosafety is a technical concept, or still, a technical philosophy applied to the health of animal things, and in this case, to herds from modern livestock production. Due to the specificity and at the same time scope of its technical conceptualization, the term biosafety becomes much more appropriate when talking of animal health.

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