Abstracts from Past Symposiums - Abstracts from the 2007 Symposium
Track I
- Hazard Reduction for Workers Collecting and Composting Road-killed Carcasses (PDF)
- Pathogen Assessment of Passively Aerated Composting of Roadkill (PDF)
- Roadkill Composting in Montana. A Seasonal Rotation Approach (PDF)
Track II
- Chronic Wasting Disease Carcass Disposal Plan in Pennsylvania (PDF)
- Emphasis on Biosecurity in development of composting methods for studies on degradation of abnormal scrapie prions in tissues from sheep and for disposal of poultry carcasses during an outbreak of avian influenza in Canada (PDF)
- Evaluation of Select Pathogen Reduction in the Interior of Large Animal Carcasses during Composting (PDF)
- Survival of Newcastle Disease Virus during Composting based on Virus Isolation and Real Time RT-PCR Methods (PDF)
Track III
- Alkaline Hydrolysis as an Effective Method for Carcass Disposal (PDF)
- Alkaline hydrolysis of prion-positive materials for production of non-ruminant feed (PDF)
- An Overview of the Rendering Industry and Its Contribution to Public and Animal Health (PDF)
- Cofiring Animal-Tissue Biomass in Coal-Fired Boilers to Dispose of Specified Risk Materials and Carcasses: An Overview of an University/Industry Collaboration (PDF)
- Costs of Contaminated Animal Carcass Disposal Under Trial Events (PDF)
- On-farm Fermentation of Poultry Carcasses (PDF)
- Spatial Analysis of Mass Burial Carcass Disposal Regulations (PDF)
Track IV
- A Better Method for Burying Animal Carcasses (PDF)
- Analysis for the Disposal of Carcasses in Sanitary Landfills (PDF)
- Composting Catastrophic Poultry Mortalities: A Growers’ Perspective (PDF)
- Composting as a Large Animal Mortality Disposal Option In Shenandoah County Virginia (PDF)
- Is In-house Composting a Practicable Method of Disease Containment and Disposal for Turkeys, Breeder Operations, and Multi-level Houses? (PDF)
- Landfilling of Poultry Carcasses: Lessons Learned from the Virginia Avian Influenza Outbreak of 2002 (PDF)
- Using Active, Sludge Compost to Address Catastrophic and Routine Poultry Mortality Disposal Needs (PDF)
Track V
- Controlling Avian Influenza Through In-House Composting of Depopulated Flocks: Sharing Delmarva’s Experience (PDF)
- Experience with the Composting of Poultry Carcasses (PDF)
- Incineration of Poultry Carcasses: Lessons Learned from the Virginia Avian Influenza Outbreak of 2002 (PDF)
Track VI
- Disaster Planning for the Disposal of Animal Carcasses in Nebraska (PDF)
- Maine Uses a Team Approach to Developing an Emergency Carcass Disposal Plan (PDF)