Gut Health & Food Safety Training
Scope of the seminar:
- Gut Health issues have broad implications for the overall health of birds, animal welfare, the production efficiency of flocks, food safety, and environmental impact. The importance of this topic has grown over the past two decades. In this training we will cover the main challenges in the gut health management (early feeding, coccidiosis control trends, dealing with bacterial enteritis and managing gut health issues and their consequences).
- Food safety today is one of the top priorities in the poultry industry since poultry meat and eggs continues to be a major concern for consumers. Why is Salmonella Infantis such a challenge? Contaminants? In this training we will cover the link of food safety with gut health and the main challenges of food safety in poultry including zoonoses Salmonella, Campylobacter and antimicrobial resistance in the poultry production chain.
Register for our live training in Bruges – Poeke (Belgium) or our online streaming training (worldwide).
Key Areas of Focus:
– Gut Health Management challenges (early feeding, coccidiosis control, bacterial enteritis & managing gut health consequences).
– Food Safety and Gut Health (link between gut health and food safety, Salmonella Infantis Challenge, Contaminants and Zoonoses & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
– Emerging Trends and Best Practices
Who is it for: poultry veterinarians, farm managers, food safety professionals, nutritionists, and anyone involved in poultry production who is responsible for ensuring bird health, production efficiency, and food safety.
It is also suitable for those interested in understanding the broader implications of gut health on public health and environmental sustainability.
Language: English
Accreditation: This training will be accredited by NGROD and WVEPAH.
Pricing
Workshop & training sessions:
- 2-days Food Safety: € 1.000
- 3-days Gut health: € 1.500
- 4-day GH & FS: € 1.950
Pricing is excl. VAT
We provide a fully adapted streaming service for this training. Follow our training online from your (home) office.
- 2-days Food Safety: € 650
- 3-days Gut health: € 975
- 4-day GH & FS: € 1.300
Pricing is excl. VAT
Hotel, per night: € 110 * in Bruges, Belgium.
Dinner, per night: € 60.
Attendees are welcome to book their accommodation through us with our group-rate up to 2 weeks before the event.
* Hotel rates are subject to change due to the high demand during high season.
Program: Gut Health & Food Safety
Day 1 Gut Health: Morning session
- Welcome & Introduction ; form, function, flora
- Necrotic and Bacterial enteritis: contributing factors
- Coccidiosis: Life cycle and impact of coccidiosis in different types of production and diagnostics
- Coccidiosis prevention tools, therapy, how to make sound anticoccidial program
- Coccidiosis in breeders and long living birds
Day 1: Afternoon session
- Efficacy testing and safety of anticoccidials
- Viral enteritis
- Early feeding concepts
Day 2 Gut Health: Morning session
- Gut health management: growth promotors and alternative solutions
- Monitoring systems for coccidiosis and bacterial enteritis
- Interactive workshop: Gut Health Management, coccidiosis
Day 2: Afternoon session
- Recapitulation of scoring systems for coccidiosis and bacterial enteritis / footpad lesions
- Practical session broilers: necropsy / lesion scoring coccidiosis and gut health / footpad scoring
- Validation of cox and BE scoring
Day 3 Gut Health & Food Safety: Morning session
- Introduction for food safety : Interaction between food safety and gut health
- Salmonella in poultry
- Campylobacter: important pathogen in both humans and chickens?
- How to fight AMR and reduce AMU : practical solutions
- Feed quality: feed structure and anti-nutritional factors
Day 3: Afternoon session
- Basis of Biosecurity
- Practical session: Biosecurity do’s and don’ts; Biosecurity Plan
- Practical digital visits
- Certificates Gut Health
Day 4 Food Safety: Morning session
- Residues & Contaminants
- How to track Salmonella throughout the food chain
- Prevention and control of Salmonella
- Diagnostics on Salmonella, Campylobacter and AB resistance
- Myths in food safety
Day 4: Afternoon session
- Workshop: Communication in food safety
- Workshop: Real Case Salmonella Infantis in a Breeder/ Broiler Integration and crisis management
- Food safety test and conclusions and certificates
Speakers
Maarten De Gussem
DVM & Global poultry consultant
Maarten is founder & global poultry consultant at Vetworks since 2009 providing support on poultry health topics with focus on mycoplasmosis, general gut health and coccidiosis.
Hilde Van Meirhaeghe
DVM & Global poultry consultant
Hilde is a global Poultry Consultant at Vetworks since 2010. She’s previously worked with DGZ and currently working with several partners and projects.
Africa Fernández-Gutiérrez
DVM, MRCVS & Global poultry consultant
Since June 2019, Africa works as Global poultry consultant at Vetworks with focus on breeder parent’s management, pathogens control, and biosecurity and health plans.
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Accreditation
Accreditation from the Flemish Veterinary Board (NGROD)
