Members of the Salmonella Enterltldls (SE) Pilot Project met with Gene Branstool,
USDA assistant secretary of ag for marketing and Inspection services, second from
right, during an orientation tour of the project on Monday. From left, Dr. John W. Hahn,
veterinary medical officer, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Dr.
David Kradel, former director of the SE Pilot Project; Dale Snader, Dutch Country
Eggs Farm; Branstool; and Dr. Edgardo Arza, assistant area veterinarian and Interim
head of the project.
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(Contlnuad from Pag* A 1)
an orientation tour to the project,
which has set October 1 as the
beginning of the project’s “Sec
ond Tier” program. The project
will initiate a quality assurance
(QA) certification program to help
control SE in flocks in the
Northeast.
Plans detailing the startup of the
QA certification program, which
was announced in May of this year
(see page A 27 of the May 8 issue
of Lancaster Farming), will be
finalized in September, according
to Dr. Edgardo Arza, assistant area
veterinarian and intermin head of
the project.
Arza is the temporary project
director following the recent resig
nation of Dr. David Kradel.
"Our goal is to get as many of
the 300 and some odd flocks in
Pennsylvania as possible on the
pFogram,’’ said Arza. The ultimate
goal is to have all of them on the
program, he said.
Actual details of how the prog
ram will be implemented are still
being outlined. But the foundation
of the program, according to the
interim director, is to “establish
certain basic things producers
should do to assure the quality is
the safest possible, rather than
targeting where SE is and trying to
do something about it.
“It’s more a standard across
the-board risk reduction prog
ram,” he said. “It is based more on
fundamental principles that will
reduce the risk of producing an egg
that has SE in it."
The program will use certain
monitoring tools to allow the pro
ject to assure the quality of the
program. There will be profession
al certification, much like in other
industry quality assurance
programs.
For more information about the
project, contact Arza at the USDA
SE Pilot Project, 1352 Harrisburg
Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601, (717)
399-8810.
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