Biosafety Technologies

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• Biosafety Technologies
• Gary Wilson
• Ohio Department of Agriculture
• Division Animal Industry

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• Economic Snapshot of Ohio Animal Agriculture
  Industry
• 27,000,000 Layers (2nd in the nation)
• 142,000 sheep (4th in the nation)
• 273,000 milk cows (10th in nation)
• 1.7 million hogs (10th in nation)
• 1.3 million beef cattle (25th in nation)
• Value exceeds 2.5 billion annually
• Value of U.S. Animal Agriculture 100 billon
  annually

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Division Animal Industry

• Protect the health and safety of Ohios livestock
  and poultry industries by providing
• Continued surveillance and monitoring for animal
  disease.
• Testing of livestock and poultry to verify the
  absence of disease.
• Diagnostic laboratory service for veterinarians,
  livestock and poultry producers. (Biosafety
  Level 3 Lab)
• Quick response in the event of an animal disease
  outbreak.
• Procedures to control and eradicate animal
  disease in Ohio.

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• Member National Bio Terrorism Lab Networks
• National Animal Health Laboratory Network
• USDA/CSREES
• Food Emergency Response Network
• USDA/FDA
• Laboratory Response Network
• Centers for Disease Control

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Dangerously Contagious or InfectiousREPORTABLE
DISEASES
OAC 9011-21-02

• Anthrax
• Avian Influenza
• Bluetongue (ovine, caprine)
• Brucellosis
• Ceratomyxosis
• Contagious equine metritis
• Eastern equine encephalomyelitis
• Equine infectious anemia
• Foot and Mouth Disease
• Fowl typhoid
• High path avian influenza
• Hog cholera
• Infectious encephalomyelitis (poultry)
• Infectious hematopoietic necrosis
• Infectious laryngotracheitis
• Infectious pancreatic necrosis
• Infectious salmon anemia

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Dangerously Contagious or InfectiousREPORTABLE
DISEASES
OAC 9011-21-02

• Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
• Monkey pox
• Mycoplasma gallisepticum turkeys
• Newcastle disease
• Poultry chlamydiosis-ornithosis
• Poultry paramyxovirus (other then Newcastle)
• Proliferative Kidney Disease
• Pseudorabies (Aujeszkys disease)
• Psoroptic cattle scabies
• Psoroptic sheep scabies
• Rabies
• Salmonella pullorum
• Scrapie
• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
• Tuberculosis
• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
• Vesicular exanthema
• Viral hemorrhagic septicemia
• Whirling disease

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ODA Authority To Act

• Ohio Revised Code 941.06
• (A) If any person has reason to suspect the
  existence of a dangerously contagious or
  infectious disease in any animal,
• he shall give notice to the director of
  agriculture.
• (B) If a veterinarian has reason to suspect the
  existence of a dangerously contagious or
  infectious disease,
• he shall give notice to the director of
  agriculture.
• (C) No person shall sell, attempt to sell, keep
  with intent to sell, or otherwise transfer to
  another person an animal which he knows is
  infected with or exposed to any dangerously
  contagious or infectious disease.

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Current State of Animal Traceability

• Current livestock and
• poultry movements
• supporting animal
• disease surveillance
• and monitoring are
• based on an
• antiquated paper-trail
• system that is
• Slow
• Inaccurate
• Focuses on breeding stock only.
• Varies in implementation state-to-state.

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Strategic Solution for the Future

• Operation
• COWPATH

Centralized
Operational
Web-based-technologies
Promoting
Animal
Traceability
Health
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A Strategic Solution

• Operation COWPATH is based on lessons learned
  from

intentional disaster New York
City 9/11/01
accidental disaster Foot Mouth Disease
outbreak, UK 2001, 2007
Given the highly contagious nature of FMD, any
outbreak in the U.S. if accidental or
intentional, will be disastrous if we are not
prepared.
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Foot Mouth Diseasea terrorist disease of
choice ! The I-70 Story
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Current Technology/Scientific Advances

• Animal Management
• Utilizing Ultra Wide Band RFID in various
  production and in-transit environments
• Open space animal ID reads of cow-calf operation.
• Mass/concentrated ID reads of feeder calves sold
  through a sale barn.
• Read Interference from adjacent equipment in a
  dairy operation.
• Associations of speed and distance to accommodate
  in-transit reads at road speed.
• Animal Health
• Development of a web-based data management
  system integrating
• Premises and animal identification.
• Health measurements and practices derived on
  farm/ranch.
• Laboratory test sample submissions and results.
• Animal movements (Interstate).
• Data query capabilities supporting surveillance
  and monitoring.
• Development of predictive software models that
  demonstrate animal disease spread within a given
  area.

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FUTURE NEEDS / OPPORTUNITIES
Radio Frequency Identification Active / UWB
TodaysDelayed Tracking
In-transit Layered Sensory Detection 24-7-365
Within 4 season complex environments.
Tomorrows Real-Time Tracking

• Location
• RFID Identification
• Airborne analysis (odor / characterization)
• Tissue analysis (urine, feces, saliva, blood,
  muscle, fat)
• Stationary applications (border-cross, weigh
  stations, truck stops)
• On-board applications (animal, truck/trailer)

Data Management

• Analysis
• Real-time data
• Existing records
• Situational awareness

• Control
• Predictive Models
• Tailored Effects

• Collection
• Location
• Identification
• Sensor detection

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Memorandum of Agreementbetween

• Ohio Department of AgricultureDivision Animal
  Industry
• And Air Force Research Laboratory711th Human
  Performance Wing
• Human Effectiveness Directorate
• June 23, 2008

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ODA / AFRL Collaboration Map
Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) Air
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Division Animal Industry Human
Effectiveness Directorate

• AFRL ODA Agreement
• Interoperable rapid response to animal
  agriculture warfighter emergencies.
• Technology research in agriculture previous to
  applications to the war-fighter.
• Technology transfer to commercial applications
  including animal agriculture.

Technology Focus
RFID Technology ID Animal ID Transport ID Sensors

• Biotechnology
• Sensory Detection
• biological hazards
• chemical hazards

Nanotechnology RFID Sensory Detections
Information Technology Real-Time situational
awareness Prediction Models Rapid Tailored
Response
Technical Outcomes Supporting ODA
Regulatory Mission AFRL Defense
Mission Commercial Applications Protecting Animal
Health/Food Safety Protecting the Warfighter
Including Animal
Agriculture

Collaborative Partners Government
Defense Universities
Private Industry
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Safeguarding The Nations Livestock

• Identifying locations where livestock are
  produce, managed and held.