FOOT & MOUTH PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE FOR POULTRY BEDDING MANUFACTURERS

Poultry-bedding manufacturers easichick™ has introduced measures at its headquarters to guard against the spread of foot and mouth disease, following the recent outbreak in Surrey.

From today (7/8/07) the company will disinfect every lorry arriving at its Manchester-based site to ensure the risk of spreading the disease is kept to a minimum. They will also require all visitors’ vehicles to be sprayed and lorry drivers and visitors to disinfect their footwear before being allowed on to the site.

easichick™ poultry bedding has been specially designed to ensure bio-security from factory to delivery. It is made from recovered wood which is cleaned and treated and which undergoes a stringent production process, including quality controls and testing.

The bedding offers:
• A dust free environment
• Zero counts for mould, Salmonella sp, Pseudmonas and Aspergillus sp
• Significantly reduced capping – cutting bedding and labour costs
• Certification by the Organic Farmers & Growers Association

Trevor Coultan, National Product Development Manager for easichick™, said: “easichick™ is a completely bio-secure bedding for poultry and therefore the manufacturing of it needs to be done in a bio-secure environment.

“We have vehicles coming on to the site everyday to collect bedding which is then delivered to destinations all over the country. It is vital that we do all we can not only to keep our site free from infection, but to help prevent the spread of the disease nationally.”

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For more information contact Gayle Green on 07766 701479 or email gayle@mcpheeassociates.co.uk