Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development

1 article published in JoVE

• Immunology and Infection

  
  Biocontained Carcass Composting for Control of Infectious Disease Outbreak in Livestock Tim Reuter¹, Weiping Xu², Trevor W. Alexander¹, Brandon H. Gilroyed¹, G. Douglas Inglis¹, Francis J. Larney¹, Kim Stanford³, Tim A. McAllister^{1 1}Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, ²Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, ³Agriculture Centre, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development Using readily available materials, this biocontained composting system enables effective on-site disposal of large animal carcasses arising in the event of infectious disease outbreak. This procedure kills most infectious agents in carcasses and contaminated manure. Once infectious agent is confirmed non-viable, mature compost can be spread as fertilizer.