In the European Union, the animal health and food safety strategy includes managing biosecurity along the entire … production chain. Farm-level biosecurity provides the foundation for this. However, the farm-level costs of preventive … biosecurity have rarely been assessed. Yet many risk management practices are in place constantly regardless of whether there is a …

A methodology is described to establish the relative financial benefit of farm animal disease prevention (biosecurity … questionnaire about their biosecurity practices. The influence of these practices on relative risk of BVDV was subjected to a Chi …-year BVDV epidemic. Expected output losses due to BVDV infection and risk were affected by biosecurity strategy and by …