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Evaluate your potential risk (for producers) |
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Do you have a single entry to the farm for vehicular traffic? |
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Do you have a single entry to the farm buildings for visitors? |
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Do you prevent unnecessary contact with the animals? |
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Do you keep visitors out of feeding and feed storage areas? |
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Do you provide freshly laundered coveralls, boots (disposable or disinfected slip on’s), and hats for visitors who will enter animal areas? |
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Do you have visitors who will interact with animals wash their hands? |
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Do you require gloves for anyone who will touch cows’ udders? |
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Do you provide personnel footbaths at strategic locations? |
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Do you change the disinfecting solution in personnel footbaths frequently? |
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Do you require employees who live or work on other farms to shower, put on freshly laundered outerwear, and disinfect footwear prior to reporting to work? |
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Do you require visitors from countries where Foot and Mouth Disease is endemic to disinfect clothing before visiting? |
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Do you require visitors from countries where Foot and Mouth Disease is endemic must avoid ALL contact with both livestock and wildlife for 14 days prior to visiting your farm? |
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Do you thoroughly wash areas with a cleaning solution prior to disinfecting? |
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Do you keep separate tools for manure handling and feeding? |
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Do you require disinfection of foot trimming equipment between farms? |
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Do you require disinfection of veterinary and identification equipment between animals, groups and farms? |
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Do you disinfect surfaces only after they are clean and dry? |
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Do you begin disinfecting at the top of items and work down? |
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Do you ensure that disinfectant solution runs off all the surfaces during the disinfecting procedure? |
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Do you allow disinfected surfaces to dry before using? |
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Do you remove pest attractants such as spilled feed, spoiled feed, manure, weeds, brushy areas? |
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Do you plug holes and gaps that rodents can enter? |
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Do you use netting and ventilation grills to prevent rodents and birds from entering animal areas? |
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Do you move animal carcasses away from buildings, feed storage and corrals immediately? |
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Do you use fly sprays, fly baits, rodent baits, and traps to contain pest populations? |
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Do you keep domestic pets away from farm premises? |
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Do you keep birds, rodents, domestic pets, and wildlife out of feed storage and feeding areas? |
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Do you isolate newly purchased livestock |
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Do you have isolation, testing, and vaccination protocols for your farm? |
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