Our commitment to biosecurity during AI season

These include:

• Training our assessors on the latest biosecurity practices ahead of the AI high-risk period
• Regular washing of assessors’ vehicles to ensure all mud and debris are removed (in areas where there are high numbers of AI cases)
• Enhanced disinfectant procedures when there’s a high risk of AI, including spraying of vehicle wheels with DEFRA-approved disinfectant on arrival and departure from your farm (in addition to your own wheel washes).

When an assessor contacts you to arrange an assessment, they’ll also plan the visit with you to ensure it’s done in the safest way possible.

We’ll ask you:

• Where to park
• What PPE is needed, and what you will provide
• Details of current health issues affecting the site
• Your policy on the length of time that should pass since the assessor last had contact with pigs or poultry
• Any other biosecurity measures we should be aware of.

Our biosecurity measures:

• Using foot dips, sanitising facilities and wearing foot coverings
• Carrying FFP3 face masks and disposable gloves
• If moving between sheds, we’ll follow your lead on where to take off and put on additional PPE
• At the end of the visit, all PPE will be removed in the outer biosecure area and returned to you for disposal
• Spraying the wheels of any vehicles parked on the main site on departure.

We hope these measures reassure you that we take biosecurity extremely seriously – and that we’re doing everything we can to help keep your birds safe when we visit.