If animals aren’t vaccinated, or they face health difficulty, they will turn into unsafe food and they will produce disease filled products. Thus, this will have a major impact and influence on our wellbeing and safety, which is why its highly important to protect poultry and livestock health, to secure their well-being and ours in return.
Unsafe food poses global health threats, endangering everyone. Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly and those with an underlying illness are particularly vulnerable. According to the world health organization: “Every year 220 million children contract diarrheal diseases and 96 000 die. Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of diarrhea and malnutrition, threatening the nutritional status of the most vulnerable.”
On this note, Mr. Ahmed Aufy the Marketing Manager at Elanco, a global health company that work to improve the health of animals through innovative products and services for pets and farm animals around the world, has shared some valuable intel when it comes to food safety and its impact.
When we asked Mr. Ahmed Aufy about his standpoint and expertise on how Food Safety impacts animal and human lives, he mentioned:
“Food safety is an intact approach which is designed to protect consumers from any hazards related to Salmonella infection and/or contamination in their food.”
He added on his answer, a brief about Human salmonellosis disease by saying that:
“Food-borne Salmonella poses a significant risk to human health where at global level impact millions of people’s lives.” He continues: “Data shows that 94 million humans get infected every year with about 155 thousand death.”
This brought us to ask him a very important question revolving around the Regulations impact and their Poultry disease’s management system, which he graciously answered as follows:
“It varies from country to another one. In some countries in EU, regulations are there and even advanced at all production and supply chain levels just to minimize the risk of infection. Regarding MENAGSE, regulators and authorities are giving special focus these days on the subject, we see a trend of ongoing investigations/discussions from several countries in the gulf region and even outside.”
Mr. Ahmed also continued to mention about the importance of live vaccines on counteracting Salmonella disease, by saying:
“Live salmonella vaccines represent more powerful solution as they work at the level of cell-mediated immunity where it can be used from day 0 which means earlier protection.”
Have you heard of the Lion Code? Perhaps you’ve read about its impact on Salmonella’s control History in the United Kingdom. Mr. Ahmed discussed with us the terminolody and he identified it as follows: “Lion code is a Britain’s specific method to stamp the eggs where it gives the message to the end users that the stamped eggs are safe for consumption.”
He continues:
“It is kind of regulations that were created at breeders, hatcheries, layers, packaging, feed mills and retailers with very extensive protocols just to avoid or minimize any kind of Salmonella infection or contamination. By other meaning protecting the entire production, supply and market chain to provide healthy and safe food.”
In addition of being the gold sponsors for MEVMAS 2022, Elanco will be discussing Food Safety and Dr. Ahmed Aufy will be there as a speaker where he will be having an in-depth speaking slot followed by participating in panel discussion where answers will be provided to all of the questions of the attendees at the Middle East Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Conference, which will be from February 7-10, 2022; online.
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