Agenda, Tours & Pricing
May 21 | May 22 | May 23 | May 24 | Optional Partner Tours | Pricing
7:00 a.m.: Registration Open for Symposium Participants
7:00 a.m.: Tours Depart Doubletree Hotel
Tour Requirements: International participants and domestic participants who have traveled internationally must not have been in contact with any livestock within 7 days of this tour. Domestic participants may not tour if having visited Plum Island in the past 7 days. All other domestic participants must not have been in contact with any livestock with 2 days of the tour. Participants must wear long pants and closed toed shoes for all tours. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will be provided when needed.
A Trip Across The Border – Animal Inspection Procedures and Routine Mortality Disposal Methods
Features visits to Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Animal Inspection Facility, Reid Dairy Farm, USDA-APHIS inspection facility, and Pine Tree Acres Landfill. Participants will visit with personnel about procedures for live animal inspections moving internationally, observe routine animal management as it relates to mortality management, and view various disposal methods such as a composting, incineration, arrangements with landfills and on farm burial. In addition participants will learn how farms and landfills facilitate successful disposal.
This is an international trip; passports are required to board the bus. If you do not have your passport you will be unable to attend this tour and no refund will be given.
Obtaining Value‐Added Products from Animal Rendering and Managing On‐Farm Mortality Effectively
Features visits to Darling International, a hog farm, two dairy farms, one featuring composting and the other an incinerator. Participants will learn about the rendering process and how value added products are obtained and can serve Michigan’s livestock industry. Learn how one company is finding ways to create new products with environmentally friendly techniques to reduce their overall environmental impact. In addition participants will observe routine animal management as it relates to mortality management, and view various disposal methods such as a composting, incineration, arrangements with landfills and on farm burial.
Capturing Energy in Mortalities, Disease Diagnostics, Emergency Planning and On‐Farm Mortality Management
Participants will have an opportunity to learn about the future potential of disposing of or capturing energy from animal tissue by products and carcass reduction at Michigan State University Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center. Then learn about disease surveillance and identification, routine incineration of carcasses, diagnostic services by the nationally renowned Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health. Talk with officials about the state’s mass carcass emergency management plan and observe routine animal management as it relates to mortality management, and view mortality composting on a beef and swine farm.
Managing Food Chain Waste and On‐Farm Mortality Management
Features a sheep and veal slaughter facility that also distributes meat and fish. Participants will learn how the facility to properly manage and dispose of unsellable or outdated food of animal origin and managing carcass byproducts. The tour also features a visit to an Ohio 1500-acre farm which is a EPA Class 2 composting site taking food wastes of animal origin and composting with leaves and manure growing-finishing operations which composts mortalities on-farm.
4:00 p.m.: Registration open (Dearborn Room)
5:00 p.m.: Tours Return to Doubletree Hotel
6:00 p.m.: Reception and Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
Welcome to Michigan: Dr. Dale Rozeboom, Professor and Extension Specialist, Michigan State University
Greetings from Canada: Dr Jim E Clark, DVM, National Manager ‐ Disease Control, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Opening Comments: Dr. Melissa Berquist, Associate Director, The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (FAZD Center)
7:30 a.m.: Registration open Dearborn Room), Breakfast Available, Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
8:15 a.m.: Welcome: Keith Creagh, Director Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Michigan/Superior Room)
8:30 a.m.: Keynote Address: Research, Regulations and Response
Dr. Donald Klingborg, US Davis Cooperative Extension will discuss how research, regulations and response need to be connected and integrated. He will address how researchers can help move research based information to change in local, state, national and internationally policy. Learn the value of collaboration and consensus among local and regional planners and most importantly learn how to involve the international community in the development of research and policy to ensure the best regulations and response around the world.
9:15 a.m.: Plenary Session: One Health: Understanding the Connection between Human and Animal Health
Mr. Gary Flory, Agricultural & Water Compliance Manager, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, will relate emergency management, mass carcass disposal, disease threats, and routine dead animal management to the One Health Initiative which seeks stronger collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment.
10:00 a.m.: Break and Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
10:30 a.m.: Breakout Sessions
Session 1: Emergency Response and Policy (Michigan/Superior Room)
Moderators: Tom Glanville and Mary Schwarz
- Disease Response by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency During Winter
- Edward Malek, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Decision Support for Disposal of Animal Carcasses and Waste Materials in a Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak – The New Zealand Approach to Decision Making
- Brendan Pollard, New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- Statutory Regulation of Dead Animals Carcass Disposal in Nigeria
- Anselm Ego Onimonyi, University of Nigeria Nsukka
- Current Status of HPAI in Vietnam: Information Program for the Livestock and Poultry Industries
- Van Dang Ky, Epidemiology Division, Department of Animal Health, Vietnam
Session 2: Alternative/Mechanical Disposal (Erie/Ontario/Huron Room)
Moderators: Bill Seekins and Keith Matassa
- Update on Status of Transportable Gasifier for On-Farm Disposal of Animal Mortalities
- Paul Lemieux, US Environmental Protection Agency
- In-Vessel Bioreduction Provides an Effective Storage and Pre-Treatment Method for Livestock Carcasses Prior to Final Disposal
- Prysor Williams, Bangor University
- Energy Flows During Gasification of Specified Risk Materials Compost
- Gordon Price, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
- Composting Animal Carcasses Removed from Roads: An Analysis of Pathogen Destruction and Leachate Constituents in Deer Mortality Static Windrow Composting
- Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research and Garrett Smith, Virginia Tech University; Presented by Jean Bonhotal, Cornell University and James White Virginia Department of Transportation
12:30 p.m.: Lunch (Michigan/Superior Room)
1:15 p.m.: Poster Review and Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
2:00 p.m.: Plenary Presentation (Michigan/Superior Room)
Decontamination and Disposal Following Food and Agricultural Emergencies: EPA’s Perspective on FSMA Section 208
Juan Reyes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2:30 p.m.: Breakout Sessions
Session 3: Environmental Effects of Disposal (Michigan/Superior Room)
Moderators: Craig Williams and Josh Payne
- Leachate Movement Beneath Two Carcass Burial Sites
- Dyan Pratt, University of Saskatchewan
- Using Novel Taxonomic Profiling Techniques to Evaluate Microbial Communities in Soil Beneath a Mortalities Burial Site
- Dyan Pratt, University of Saskatchewan
- Large Animal Carcass Mortality Composting: Impact on Soil Nutrients
- Mark Hutchinson, University of Maine
- Fate of Barbiturates and Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs During Carcass Composting
- Mary Schwarz, Cornell Waste Management Institute
- Air Emissions from In-Vessel Rotating Drum and Open Static Pile Composting of Swine Carcasses, Whole and Ground
- Dale Rozeboom, Michigan State University
Session 4: Disposal, Depopulation, Decontamination/Disinfection and Recovery (Erie/Ontario/Huron Room)
Moderators: Melissa Berquist and Edward Malek
- Mass Depopulation of Laying Hens in Whole Barns with Liquid Carbon Dioxide: Evaluation of Welfare Impact
- Patricia Turner, University of Guelph
- Field Study to Examine Restoration of a Rendering Facility Back to Normal Operation Following its use for Disposal: Rendering in an FAD Response
- Paul Lemieux, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Reading the Fine Print – A User’s Guide to Understanding Disinfectants
- Nicole Kenny, Virox Technologies Inc
- EPA’s Role in Radiological Releases and Agricultural Waste Management Activities
- By Paul Kudarauskas, USEPA Office of Emergency Management, Presented by Jim Michael EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
5:00 p.m.: Poster Presentations (The Great Room)
- Mortality Composting Outreach in Brasil/Education Exchange by Jean Bonhotal and Mary Schwarz
- Field Testing of Bone Screening and Beneficial Reuse of Large Animal Mortality Compost by Robert Clark
- Serological Investigation of Salmonellosis in Some Wild Birds and Human Contacts by Amr Hashem
- A Comparison of The Quantity and Quality of Leachate Generated by Compost Piles Exposed to Natural and Artificially Induced Precipitation by Mark King
- Small Scale Composting at the UNE Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center Compost Facility by Keith Matassa
- Online Mortality Certification Course by Amanda Meddles
- Biosecurity messaging: What do the recipients of our messages think? by Dale Moore
- A Literature Review on Disinfecting Chemicals for Improved Bio-Security of Emergency Animal Mortality Composting and Anaerobic Digestion by Lam Nguyen
- Static Composting of Equine Mortality by C.A. Shea Porr
- Training First Responders on Equine Handling and Technical Rescue by C.A. Shea Porr
- Behavior of Microbial Communities Beneath a Mortalities Burial Site using CPN-60 Taxonomic Profiling by Dyan Pratt
- Economic Costs of In-vessel and Open Static Pile Systems for Routine Mortality Management on Swine Farms by Dale Rozeboom and Jerry May
- Disposal Planning with Landfills by Anna Ruman
- United States Dead Animal Disposal Laws by Mary Schwarz
6:30 p.m.: Dinner on your own
7:30 a.m.: Registration open, Breakfast Available, Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
8:30 a.m.: Keynote Address: 2010 FMD Outbreak in Korea‐Government’s Response to this Emergency and Important Lessons Learned (Michigan/Superior Room)
Dr. Heekwon Ahn, Animal Environment Division, National Institute of Animal Science Rural Development Administration Republic of Korea will discuss Korea’s response to this emergency, and important the lessons learned that would be most helpful to other countries around the world should they face a similar situation. Dr. Ahn is now one of Korea’s leading researchers evaluating the environmental impacts of emergency disposal techniques employed late last year, and improved disposal technologies for handling future disease outbreaks.
9:15 a.m.: Plenary Session: PBB’s Continuing Impact on Michigan
Dr. Steven Halstead, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will discuss PBB’s continuing impact on Michigan. In the 1970’s the citizens of Michigan experienced the contamination of their food system with polybrominated biphenyls (pbb’s). A PBB‐based flame retardant was accidently mixed into animal feeds. The history of this event will be shared with a focus on emergency response, animal mortality management, the impact on human health, the long‐term impact on public policy and emergency planning. The presentation will be by a team of individuals, many of which lived through this historical event and other who have had a role in managing its enduring effect on Michigan.
10:00 a.m.: Break and Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
10:30 a.m.: Breakout Sessions
Session 5: Animal Mortality Composting (Michigan/Superior Room)
Moderators: Jean Bonhotal and Gary Flory
- Quantification of Sodium Pentobarbital Residues from Equine Mortality Compost Piles
- Josh Payne, Oklahoma State University
- Novel Molecular and Microbial Insights into Mortality Composting
- Tim Reuter, Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
- Nutrient and Moisture Distribution Within Large Animal Carcass Compost Piles
- Bill Seekins, Maine Compost Team
- Suitability of Sunflower-Hulls-Based Turkey Litter for On-Farm Turkey Carcass Composting Seasonally
- Shafiqur Rahman, North Dakota State University
Session 6: Depopulation, Decontamination/Disinfection and Recovery (Erie/Ontario/Huron Room)
Moderators: Larry Sikora and Mark King
- Persistence and Inactivation of a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) Virus
- Joseph Wood, US EPA National Homeland Security Research Center
- Mass Depopulation Technologies and Policy
- Darrel Styles, USDA APHIS
- Validation of Decontamination Processes in the Agri-Food Context
- Elizabeth Rohonczy, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Animal Mortality Response Capability Gaps: Federal R&D
- Lori Miller, USDA APHIS
12:30 p.m.: Lunch (Michigan/Superior Room)
1:15 p.m.: Poster Review and Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
2:00 p.m.: Plenary Presentation (Michigan/Superior Room)
Knowledgeable, Ready, and Able: A Comprehensive Extension Agro-Security Program for the Livestock and Poultry Industries
Tom Glanville, Iowa State University
2:30 p.m.: Breakout Sessions
Session 7: Policy and Education (Michigan/Superior Room)
Moderators: Heather Simmons and Mark Hutchinson
- FMD Global Lessons Learned and the Shift in US Strategy
- Lori Miller, USDA APHIS
- Canada Initiatives – Outbreak Response and Effective Disease Control Measures
- Jim Clark , Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- The Socio-Economic, Environmental and Biosecurity Aspects of Livestock Carcass Disposal Methods: Impacts of European Policy
- Prysor Williams, Bangor University
International Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Heather Simmons, FAZD
Guest Panelists: Dr. Jim Clark, Canada Food Inspection Agency; Dr. Darrel Styles, USDA‐APHIS; Dr. Prysor Williams Bangor University Great Britain; Dr. Brendan Pollard, New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; and Dr. Heekwon Ahn: Republic of Korea
Panel members will discuss policies and knowledge gaps related to their animal tissue management and or foreign animal disease outbreak experiences in Great Britain, Canada, United States, Republic of Korea and New Zealand. Each panelist will provide brief overview and respond to audience questions.
Session 8: By-products and Foods of Animal Origin (Erie/Ontario/Huron Room)
Moderators: Shaun Kennedy and Dale Rozeboom
- Movement Control Project 2011-2012
- Eric Hess and Mike Neault, Multi-State Partnership for Security in Agriculture
- Composting Of Specified Risk Materials In Canada As A Management Approach
- Gordon Price, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
- Foot and Mouth Disease Continuity of Business Planning for the U.S. Dairy Industry and Milk Disposal I
- Pam Hullinger and Danelle Bickett-Weddle, Center for Food Security and Public Health, Iowa State University
- Foot And Mouth Disease Continuity Of Business Planning for the U.S. Dairy Industry and Milk Disposal II
- Pam Hullinger and Danelle Bickett-Weddle, Center for Food Security and Public Health, Iowa State University
- USDA APHIS Veterinary Services: Our Roles in the International Movement of Animal Origin Food Products and Live Animals
- Jennifer Juers-Green, USDA, APHIS, VS
5:00 p.m.: Poster Presentations (The Great Room)
- Mortality Composting Outreach in Brasil/Education Exchange by Jean Bonhotal and Mary Schwarz
- Field Testing of Bone Screening and Beneficial Reuse of Large Animal Mortality Compost by Robert Clark
- Serological Investigation of Salmonellosis in Some Wild Birds and Human Contacts by Amr Hashem
- A Comparison of The Quantity and Quality of Leachate Generated by Compost Piles Exposed to Natural and Artificially Induced Precipitation by Mark King
- Small Scale Composting at the UNE Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center Compost Facility by Keith Matassa
- Online Mortality Certification Course by Amanda Meddles
- Biosecurity messaging: What do the recipients of our messages think? by Dale Moore
- A Literature Review on Disinfecting Chemicals for Improved Bio-Security of Emergency Animal Mortality Composting and Anaerobic Digestion by Lam Nguyen
- Static Composting of Equine Mortality by C.A. Shea Porr
- Training First Responders on Equine Handling and Technical Rescue by C.A. Shea Porr
- Behavior of Microbial Communities Beneath a Mortalities Burial Site using CPN-60 Taxonomic Profiling by Dyan Pratt
- Economic Costs of In-vessel and Open Static Pile Systems for Routine Mortality Management on Swine Farms by Dale Rozeboom
- Disposal Planning with Landfills byAnna Ruman
- United States Dead Animal Disposal Laws by Mary Schwarz
6:30 p.m.: Dinner on your own
7:30 a.m.: Registration, Breakfast Available, Exhibitor Showcase (The Great Room)
8:00 a.m.: Cross‐Border FMD Response Disease Simulation Workshop (Michigan/Superior Room)
(This session runs from 8 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. with a break)
This workshop will include a break out session and a facilitated scenario discussion. It will provide participants an opportunity to analyze a fictitious cross-border FMD outbreak and identify issues and gaps related to movement, depopulation, disposal and decontamination activities. Participants will be divided into groups to discuss and document issues and gaps, then report back to the larger group on their findings. The overall list of issues and gaps will form the basis for a prioritized list of identified actions. A summary of the workshop findings will be posted on the Symposium website as part of the proceedings.
Hosts: Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Maine Department of Agriculture and University of Maine
11:45 a.m.: Board Buses with Box Lunches to Demonstration Area at the MSU Tollgate Facility (Fairlane Room)
1:00 p.m.: Demonstrations
Demonstration area will feature the construction of a carcass compost static pile, milk truck decontamination, carcass reduction through enviro processors and alkaline hydrolysis, farm animal euthanasia, biological decontamination, microwave sterilization, in-vessel composting, gasification, and foam euthanasia.
6:00 p.m.: Return to Doubletree Hotel
Tuesday, May 22, 2012: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Experience Little Bavaria
Thousands of guests each year enjoy. Now try your hand at making Dorothy Zehnder’s apple strudel! Go behind the scenes and create an individual apple or cherry strudel. Explore over 40 shops and stores specializing in everything from antiques to homemade fudge, all within walking distance! While you’re browsing shops, stop for lunch on your own to fully enjoy Michigan’s Little Bavaria. Lastly visit Bronner’s home to over 50,000 gifts and trims for all seasons and reasons, the world’s largest Christmas store, where a spectacular Christmas wonderland awaits you the size of one‐and‐a‐half football fields.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012: Two Half Day Concurrent Options (10 a.m. – 2 p.m.)
- Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum Excursion
Referred to as “an 80‐acre time machine,” Greenfield village is home to 83 historic structures, including the home of Noah Webster, author of the first American dictionary. Ride a genuine Model T, “pull” glass with real artisans, take in some 1967 baseball, or order lunch from a 1850s menu… Greenfield Village has plenty to see and do. What began as a simple yet bold idea to document the genius of ordinary people by recognizing and preserving the objects they used in the course of their everyday lives has grown into the ultimate place to explore what Americans past and present have imagined and invented. Spanning nine acres, the single‐floor Henry Ford Museum brings American history to life. - Gardens Galore
Take a leisurely stroll through Henry Ford Estate and the Jens Jensen landscaped gardens and grounds, featuring unique flowers and landscape designs. The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory is located on Detroit’s Belle Isle in the Detroit River, nestled between the cities near East side and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The Conservatory, in operation since 1904, features five distinct horticultural houses showcasing plants indigenous around the globe as well as an outside Lily Pond Garden and formal perennial gardens.
Early Registration (by April 20, 2012): $300
Regular Registration (on and after April 21, 2012): $375
Optional Monday Tours: $30 (select one tour)
Monday Only: $50
Tuesday Only: $150
Wednesday Only: $150
Thursday Only: $150
Partner Tours
- Experience Little Bavaria (full day): $55
- Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum Museum and Fords’ Rouge Plant Tour: $75
- Gardens Galore (half day): $40
