David Burch is a veterinarian with over 30 years experience in practice, industry and consultancy.
He is a director of his own consultancy company Octagon Services Ltd and the past President of the UK’s Pig Veterinary Society.
Author: David Burch
Author: David Burch | Tuesday 01 July 2008
Author: David Burch | Monday 09 June 2008
There are active consultations going on in the UK on responsibility sharing, between the livestock industry and government – and the inevitable cost sharing. It is part of an EU Animal Health Strategy initiative but what is happening in other European countries?
Author: David Burch | Tuesday 20 May 2008
‘Disease control is king’ and ‘Pigs are precious’ were two of the remarks made by John Dean, professor at Minnesota State University at a recent conference in Rovereto, N. Italy. Analysis of the major components of production profitability variation were the CDL group (culls, deads and lightweights) which accounted for 55%, followed by feed conversion efficiency (FCE) at 28% and finally average daily (ADG) gain, 17%.
Author: David Burch | Monday 28 April 2008
On a recent visit to Korea, where the average number of pigs finished/sow/year is about 13 and the mortality is caused primarily by the porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC), I was asked if the new PCV2 vaccines would solve the problem?
Author: David Burch | Monday 07 April 2008
The link between the price of a barrel of oil, biofuel production and the grain price was described in a recent paper – if the cost of a barrel of oil stays high, don’t expect grain prices to fall sharply.
Author: David Burch | Monday 17 March 2008
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has just reported on how much do different meats contribute to salmonellosis in man and they have found it very difficult to conclusively attribute the level from different meat sources. They appeared to agree that eggs and egg products were the most frequently implicated sources but were not sure about the risk from poultry, pork, beef and lamb – so let’s have a go.
Author: David Burch | Tuesday 26 February 2008
Salmonella species are the second most common cause of food poisoning in man after Campylobacter spp, affecting over 13,400 people in the UK each year, but the latest report on Salmonella in Livestock Production in Great Britain (VLA, 2007) shows that only a small fraction (<1.8%) of human infections can be associated with pig isolates.
Author: David Burch | Tuesday 05 February 2008
Campylobacter species are the commonest cause of food poisoning in man, affecting over 50,000 people in the UK and 69/100,000 population in Denmark each year, but Danish researchers have shown that potentially, only a small fraction of pig isolates are associated with man and these strains are also found in poultry, which appears to be a major source.
Author: David Burch | Tuesday 15 January 2008
Author: David Burch | Tuesday 11 December 2007
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