, promote awareness and educate catfish farmers and processors on the principles of food defense, biosecurity and traceability … were asked a series of questions covering different areas of food defense/safety, biosecurity and traceability. Of those … surveyed, 74% said they have a food defense plan; 48% had a working traceability plan; and 52% had a biosecurity plan. Pre- and …

. Larger herds are also more likely to adopt biosecurity innovations, explaining why larger herds may be less diseased in …

welfare by encouraging precautionary biosecurity actions. Some technical innovations can reduce social welfare. The model is … also extended to study a voluntary herd depopulation scheme. Moral hazard in the biosecurity action will dampen the scheme …

In the European Union, the animal health and food safety strategy includes managing biosecurity along the entire … production chain. Farm-level biosecurity provides the foundation for this. However, the farm-level costs of preventive … biosecurity have rarely been assessed. Yet many risk management practices are in place constantly regardless of whether there is a …