Biobest Johne's Risk Assessment - the first step toward managing Johne's in your herd
Biobest Johne's Risk Assessment is a practical approach to establishing Johne's Risk Status through veterinary risk assessment and targeted sampling.
This assessment programme has been designed to improve the ability of veterinary surgeons to help their clients to identify the Johne's Risk Status of their farms. It has been prepared by Biobest staff with the assistance of Peter Orpin of Park Veterinary Group, and is consistent with the latest DEFRA Guidance and the Johne's Initiative. It is a risk-based system of assessment and is designed to augment existing official Johne's schemes run by CHeCS which may not be immediately practical for many commercial herds. It offers a logical system of classification of herd status according to the risk of presence of the organism (based on purchase history) and targeted sampling. After completion of a veterinary risk assessment and a first laboratory screen, the veterinary surgeon and client should be better positioned to evaluate the risk of disease presence in the herd. Following repeated annual assessments and tests the confidence in the risk status will be progressively increased. Knowledge of Johne's Risk Status then provides the impetus to develop a control programme to limit the spread of Johne's within the herd if the disease is found at the screening stage. For further information click here or contact our health scheme manager or one of our vets.
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