Salmonella Control Programme
Salmonella affects performance, animal health and food safety. In order to comply with legal and commercial standards, its prevalence needs to be minimized as early as possible in the production chain.
Selko offers customers an holistic and integrated approach focusing on feed, farm, and health aspects. The programme provides a solid basis to protect animals from Salmonella colonization reducing transmission and dissemination through the entire production chain.
Prepare for the unexpected: Salmonella Control Webinar
Salmonella affects performance, animal health and food safety. In order to comply with legal and commercial standards, its prevalence needs to be minimized as early as possible in the production chain. In this webinar, we have 2 experts that talk about controlling Salmonella.
Salmonella can be easily introduced into the feed by contaminated ingredients, sub-optimal processing, and sub-hygienic transport, storage, distribution, and administration. Our Raw Material expert, Pieter Steyn, will describe about how Salmonella can occur in raw materials used for animal feed.
Our US technical & innovation director, Marcos Rostagno will focus more on the effect of the Salmonella contamination in the animal production.
How do we do it?
Selko' Salmonella scan
Selko’s Salmonella scan focuses on sampling, serotyping, and benchmarking. It is crucial to identify critical risks and control points and the relevant Salmonella serotypes. It establishes the dynamics of the Salmonella contamination within the production chain, and provides the basis for our customized and integrated control programme.
Feed Additives
Feed and/or water additives can complicate the colonization and invasion process of Salmonella.
- Preventing bacterial intake via feed & water: Low pKa short-chain fatty acids (SCFA's) (delivered via feed and/or water) strengthen the low pH barrier of the upper digestive system and the mucosal barrier in the lower intestinal tract.
- Stabilizing the microbiota: high pKa SCFA’s and medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA’s) create a more challenging condition in the non-acidic part of the intestinal tract. Non-digestible oligosaccharides have a prebiotic effect that contribute to a more competitive microbiota. Additionally, specific oligosaccharides show a high binding affinity for Salmonella fimbriae, reducing intestinal colonization.