Jul 07, 2022

Beyond biosecurity: new ways to keep viruses out of feed

It’s been a decade since PEDv was discovered lurking in animal feed. Will the technology of the future render animal feed virus free?

— ByEmma Penrod

A trip around the world is, for most people, a once-in-a-lifetime event. But whenKansas State Universityprofessor and veterinarian Jordan Gebhardt received an invitation to travel to Vietnam in mid-2019, he had reason to believe this trip would be particularly momentous — and not just for him.

By this point, the world already knew that viruses, particularlyporcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), could spread in animal feed. And there was evidence from the lab thatAfrican swine fever (ASF)could also survive in feed, but it was not yet clear whether the virus was circulating in real-life feed mills.

Six months after ASF reared its ugly head in...

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