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  • Biogas Code of Practice Consultation Workshops

    APL has developed a risk based Code of Practice for On-farm Biogas Production and Use (Piggeries) in response to growing interest in Biogas technology from Australian pig producers.  APL, through a previous project identified that there was a lot of …

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  • 2015-2020 Strategic Plan Consultation

    The APL 2015–2020 Strategic Plan consultation process continues with all meetings across the country now completed. To all of those producers who attended meetings, APL thanks you for your contributions so far. APL would like to offer all producers that have …

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  • Corrective Statement

    Australian Pork Limited (APL) issued Media Releases on 11 April and 19 December 2012 concerning the progress of the Australian pork industry’s initiative to move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017. APL made statements in those Releases …

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  • Notice of AGM and Annual Conference

    The APL Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel, cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne on Thursday 21 November 2012. The Annual Conference will commence at 9.00am and the AGM will commence at 1.00pm. For …

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Testing the Antibody Response of Pigs to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Vaccines

1 Pages
1 Dec 2011
Author(s): Dr Wilna Vosloo

This project investigated the antibody responses of Australian pigs to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines held for use in case of an FMD outbreak. FMD is one of the most infectious diseases affecting cloven hoofed ruminants and pigs. Australia is free of FMD but projections indicate a widespread outbreak could cause losses of up to $12 billion. Therefore Australia has invested in a vaccine bank containing antigens which can be used to formulate vaccine to ensure a strong immune response should there be an outbreak. This project has demonstrated the antigens can be formulated into successful vaccines that elicit immune responses in Australian pigs.

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