Voluntary national measures taken by the

stakeholders to ensure animal health,

welfare and food safety

Updated 31.05.2016

OPERATING PHILOSOPHY

To maintain and promote health and welfare of

production animals by:

• Focusing on preventive measures; e.g. by instructing

import of animals, embryos, semen and feed.

• Coordinating national health care schemes.

• Maintaining on-line herd health databases as a tool for

stakeholders (Naseva for cattle and Sikava for swine).

With these measures we will also manage the risk of

contagious animal diseases and ensure the food safety.

WAS FOUNDED 1994

Background:

1. Need to maintain the excellentanimal health status in Finland.

2. Need to manage the risks brought by the EU membership – ”Free Trade”.

3. Broad consensus by all stakeholders in primaryproduction: farmers, food and feed industry etc.

4. Willingness to take the responsibility voluntarily.

→ focus on prevention

5. ETT got a mandate from the stakeholders to makerules to ensure the animal health status.

→ commitment of the stakeholders

http://w

ww.euprimarycare.org

ORGANIZATION

Ordinary members- Dairies

- Slaughterhouse companies

- Egg packing companies

Passive members:- Farmers Union

- Feed industry , breeding companies

- Agricultural advisory centers

- Rural educational establishments

- Helsinki University

- Insurance companies

- Personal members: vets, farmers etc.

= those dealing with primary production

Quality commitments between farmers and

industry to obey ETT`s rules and instructions

Annual meeting

Executive Committee

PERSONNEL

5 vets (Executive manager + 4 veterinary advisors)

2 register officers (Naseva and Sikava)

1 treasurer

Two offices; Seinäjoki and Lievestuore

RULES AND QUIDELINES

Made by ETT together with ”ETU-

working teams” and veterinary

expert groups

”ETU- Working teams” for swine herds, dairy

herds, beef herds and poultry; laying hens

and broilers / turkeys.

- Delegates from farms, industry, practising vets,

researchers, advisory organizations etc.

To achieve national consensus

Regular meetings coordinated by ETT

Authorities are invited in these meetings

Internatiol network and personal contacts

HOW TO ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE

Everybody in the food chain is conscious of the risks.

Carrots and sticks: nobody is going to pay if you take

the risk and fail.

Understanding the importance (effectiviness) of

prevention.

Information in simple model =>web sites: www.ett.fi.

Training, education….

PREVENTION AT FARM LEVEL

ETT:s ”ten orders” = biosecurity

measures for every sector:1. How to keep the pathogens out of the country or

out of the farm (ASF, BT, AI, salmonella..) =>

instructions for animal trade etc.

2. How to eradicate / minimize pathogens

in the country / on the farm (Enzootic pneumonia,

BVD, mange, salmonella….)

3. How to improve / sustain the herd immunity

(AI-AO, age segregation…..)

What a single farmer can do to keep good health situation

Better

immunity

Less

pathogen

Principles of prevention

PREVENTION – ANIMAL TRADE

ETT:s quidelines = additional requirements of the industry: every import supervised / approved case by case by ETT

Buying confirm the disease situation / disease freedom in advance, by testing if necessary (protocols from www.ett.fi)

Selling separate loading areas, separate transport, cleaning procedures, documentation

Health certificates, quarantines

PREVENTION – FEED CONTROL

Feed hygiene on farms keep feed chain and manure apart (VTEC, salmonella).

Rodent control, wild birds (salmonella, AI, ND).

Buy imported feed only from the companies which are approved in ETT:s Positive List.

Quality commitments between farmersand industry to obey ETT:s rules and instructions.

ETT:s ”ten orders” have been taken as a part of the salmonella group insuranceconditions.

THE POSITIVE LIST

Since 1995

Voluntary feed control for

salmonella before use

Quality contracts with transports

and storages

How to act, if salmonella is found

in feed / feed mill

3 categories: importers, feed

mills, feed mixing contractors

The Positive List is published

every week in Farmers magazine

Documented health status in databases:

Naseva: 65 % of cattle herds, 80 % of production

www.naseva.fi

Sikava: 90 % of swine herds, 95 % of production

www.Sikava.fi

ETTry/pk

DATA – IN, NASEVA AND SIKAVA

Via interface:

Meat Inspection data from slauhgterhouses

Mastitis analyses from dairy labs

Health codes and medications from vets databases and farmersdatabases (Ammu, WinPig)

Production data from Pro Agria

Manual recordings in database:

Vets visits observations and the Health Plan

Serological analyses from Evira

Salmonella analyses from labs

Animal imports

Automatic information (SMS) to farmers mobile phone

Automatic alarm system (diseases, symtoms, lab results) to

slaughterhouse, dairy, vet and ETT

DATA – OUT, NASEVA AND SIKAVA

Vets

- Vet intra: special news or announcements only to vets

- Access to all data of the farms the vet has a health

care contract with

Slaughterhouses / dairies

- Access to all data of the farms they have a production

contract with

- Get alarm in case of exceptional situation

Other persons involved (e.g. ProAgria)

- With farmers permission

Naseva and Sikava (vets, register officers)

- National situation, all farms