Below is a list of the paper presented at the conference. To view the papers or the full proceedings, click on the link given at the end.

Session 1. Modernisation of meat inspection

• Modernisation of meat inspection – Buncic
• Evaluation of the usefulness of carcass-weight, meat-percentage or identity of pig-producer in future-risk based meat inspection – Sandberg
• State of Art of meat inspection of pigs in the EU – Alban
• Risk-based meat inspection: Implementation experiences in Germany and integration of animal-oriented welfare criteria – Meemken
• Experiences with a risk-based meat inspection standard in pigs – Oorburg

Session 2. Epidemiology and control of bacterial pathogens I

• Application of the DIVA principle to Salmonella Typhimurium vaccines in pigs avoids interference with serosurveillance programmes – Leyman
• Transmission study of Salmonella in pigs with 3 intervention strategies – De Ridder
• A farm transmission model for Salmonella in pigs for individual EU Member States – Hill
• Risk-mitigation for antimicrobial resistance in Danish swine herds at a national level – Andreasen
• Association between Salmonella sp. and Yersinia enterocolitica infection in swine – Shaw
• Aerial dissemination of Clostridium difficile spores inside and outside a pig farm – Keessen

Session 3. Pathogenesis and molecular epidemiology

• Stress-induced Salmonella Typhimurium re-excretion by pigs is associated with cortisol induced increased intracellular proliferation in porcine macrophages – Verbrughe
• Genetic characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica collected from tonsils of slaughtered pigs – Denis
• The infection biology of pig-associated Salmonella – Crayford
• The use of quantitative Real-Time PCR to estimate Salmonella shed in faecal samples from naturally infected finishing pigs – Pires
• Salmonella Typhimurium interference with the humoral immune response of pigs – Van Parys
• Molecular epidemiology of Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp on swine farms in Ontario, Canada – Farzan

Session 4. Detection

• A novel strategy to obtain quantitative data for modelling: Combined enrichment and real-time PCR for enumeration of salmonellae from pig carcasses – Malorny
• Improved risk-based strategies for disease management in the pig production chain – Kasper
• A selective chromogenic plate, YECA, for the detection of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica: specificity, sensibility and capacity to detect pathogenic Y. enterocolitica from pig tonsils – Denis
• Comparison of DNA extraction methods to detect Salmonella spp. from pig faeces and pork – Lettini
• Toxoplasma gondii prevalence in confinement pig herds measured by meat juice serology at slaughter – Blaha
• Development of a serological Luminex assay for Trichinella and Salmonella in swine – Fimme Jan van der Wal

Session 5. Antibiotic Resistance in particular MRSA

• Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals of public health concern. An overview of the current situation and options for control – Mevius
• Does nasal colonization with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pig farmers persist after holidays from pig exposure? – Harlizius
• Investigation of MRSA transmission between pigs and the environment following intra-nasal inoculation – Gibbons
• Infection kinetics and host specificity of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pigs – Szabo
• Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in market age pigs on-farm, at slaughter and retail pork – Molla
• Quantitative exposure to livestock-associated MRSA ST398 of pig – Bos

Session 6. Epidemiology and control of bacterial pathogens II

• Observations on the distribution of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium on pig farms in Great Britain – Davies
• Differences in risk factors for Salmonella serotypes in breeding pigs in Portugal – Correia
• Occurrence and epidemiology of Salmonella enterica in two slaughterhouses and cutting plants in Spain – Arguello
• EU-wide baseline survey on the prevalence of Salmonella in holdings with breeding pigs, 2008 – prevalence and factors associated with Salmonella positivity – Amore
• Occurrence of human enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. in Belgian pigs and contamination of pork carcasses during slaughter – Van Damme
• Microbial and serological effects of vaccination of sows and suckling piglets with an attenuated live Salmonella vaccine – Roesler

Session 7. Ways to reduce the use of antimicrobials

• The use of antimicrobials in food animals. The big picture – Blaha
• A new advisory tool to help practitioners reduce antibiotic consumption in pig herds – Bak
• The ResPig program as a tool for identifying risk factors affecting technical performance and post-mortem results at the slaughterhouse on Dutch pig farms and for restrictive antibiotic use – Geurts
• The link between biosecurity and production and treatment characteristics in pig herds – Laanen
• Garlic reduces effect of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae infection in pigs – Mul

Session 8. Miscellaneous

• Risk management with regard to dioxin residues in pork meat – Kuhne
• Risk of T. solium Transmission from Pork Slaughtered in Western Kenya – Doble
• HEV inactivation assessment using viable virus – Berto
• Alternative method for knife disinfection with INSPEXX 200 is more efficient than 82°C water – Heres

Session 9. Risk assessment/Public Health

• Public Health burden of exposure to microbes and parasites originating from pigs and pork – Havelaar
• Evaluation of the potential use of risk-based sampling to surveillance of antibacterial residues in Danish pork – Alban
• Modelling of Salmonella dynamics in the pig slaughterhouse – Swart
• A Quantitative Microbiological Risk Assessment for Salmonella transmission in pigs in individual EU Member States – Hill
• Ranking of food safety risks in pork from organic and free-range production systems – Sandberg
• National baseline surveys to characterise processing hygiene and microbial hazards of Australian culled sow meat, retail pork sausages and retail pork mince – Hamilton

Session 10. Control of antimicrobial use

• Modelling the use of different enforcement strategies to improve food safety – van Asselt
• Association between serological salmonella monitoring in breeding herds and meat-juice prevalence in sow herds with production of finishers – Dahl
• Relation between antimicrobial use and resistance in Belgian pig herds – Callens
• Salmonella in pigs and pork and their antimicrobial resistance: 10 years of surveillance in Germany – Tenhagen
• Use of heavy metals in swine feed and its association with the co-selection of metal tolerant and multi-drug resistant Salmonella – Gebreyes

Posters

A one-page summary of each of the 80 posters is included in the proceedings.

Further Reading

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