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Preventive health solutions

In today’s world, healthier animals translate to healthier humans. Therefore, it is the responsibility of professionals in multiple sectors to work together to achieve public health outcomes, also known as the ‘One Health’ approach (WHO read more). Veterinary stakeholders, and other animal health professionals play an essential role in the development and implementation of strategies to manage animal health risks. In protecting animal health and welfare, they contribute towards improving human health, as well as food safety and security. Consequently, veterinarians need effective tools to prevent and control animal diseases, must be able to communicate and work in close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, in order for joint action to be taken. Kemin offers expertise, products and services to all veterinarian stakeholders.

At Kemin, we mainly focus on three aspects to enable the ‘One Health’ approach: reduce the spread of disease from animals to humans, reduce the transfer of antibiotic resistance and healthier meat to ensure food safety.

When we want to improve human health, the key focus area must be to improve the health of animals. Many of the same microbes infect animals and humans, as they share the eco-systems they live in. We must control the zoonoses, which are diseases that can spread between animals and humans such as the flu, rabies, etc. Additionally, drug-resistant microbes can also be transmitted between animals and humans through direct contact or contaminated food. Therefore, a well-coordinated approach in humans and animals is required to effectively contain it.

We also observe the issue of antibiotic resistance. This occurs when bacteria adapt having been exposed to antibiotics and become more difficult to treat. Therefore, the feed industry must switch from a reactive to a preventive approach, ensuring correct use and replacement of antibiotics. This can be achieved through prevention, supporting the immune system and maintaining gut health.

The third crucial aspect is ensuring food safety, a topic that receives more and more focus from consumers. As food safety starts in the beginning of the chain, it is needless to say that this is one of our priorities: Control of certain food borne pathogens such as Salmonella and Campylobacter start in the animal.

The One Health approach can only work if we join forces to support different approaches. To effectively detect, respond to, and prevent outbreaks of zoonoses and food safety issues, laboratory information must be shared and joint responses to health threats should be implemented.

To us, a preventive animal health approach is crucial in ensuring animal health and human health. Don’t hesitate to contact us to receive any guidance on how we may support you.