Veterinaria

AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY EMERGENCY PLAN

AUSVETPLAN
2000

Operational Procedures Manual Decontamination

AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic animal disease incursion. The documents provide guidance based on sound analysis, linking policy, strategies, implementation, coordination and emergency-management plans.Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand

This Operational Procedures Manual forms part of: AUSVETPLAN Edition 2.0, 1996
[AUSVETPLAN Edition 1.0, was published in 1991] This document will be reviewed regularly. Suggestions and recommendations for amendments should be forwarded to the AUSVETPLAN Coordinator (see Preface).

Record of amendments to this manual:Version 2.1, published May 2000, updates Appendix 2 ‘Suppliers and Distributors of Disinfectants’

© Commonwealth of Australia and each of its States and Territories 2000 ISBN 0 642 24506 1
This work is copyright and apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced without the written permission from the publisher, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries andForestry — Australia, acting on behalf of the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand (ARMCANZ). Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the AUSVETPLAN Coordinator. The Commonwealth/States/Territories gives no warranty that the information contained in AUSVETPLAN is correct or complete. The Commonwealth shall not be liable forany loss howsoever caused whether due to negligence or other arising from use or reliance on this code.

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PREFACE
This Operational Procedures Manual for decontamination is an integral part of the Australian Veterinary Emergency Plan, AUSVETPLAN (Edition 2.0). AUSVETPLAN structures and functions are described in the Summary Document. This manualsets out the disease control procedures which were approved in February 1991 by the then Australian Agricultural Council out-of-session at meeting 135 for use in an animal health emergency in Australia. The information has been updated and approved by the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand (ARMCANZ) out-of-session in January 1996. Detailed information on eachof the exotic diseases covered by AUSVETPLAN is set out in the individual Disease Strategies, which give specific decontamination requirements. This manual details decontamination procedures to be carried out in the field. The structures and procedures for managing decontamination operations are set out in the Control Centres Management Manual. Cross reference to strategies, manuals and otherAUSVETPLAN documents are expressed in the form: Document Name, Section no. For example, Public Relations Manual, Section 3 In addition, Exotic Diseases of Animals: A Field Guide for Australian Veterinarians by W.A. Geering, A.J. Forman and M.J. Nunn, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1995 (Exotic Diseases Field Guide) is a source for some of the information about the aetiology,diagnosis and epidemiology of the disease and should be read in conjunction with this strategy. The manual will be reviewed regularly. Suggestions and recommendations for amendments should be forwarded to: The AUSVETPLAN Coordinator National Office of Animal and Plant Health Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry — Australia GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601 Tel: 02 6272 5540; Fax: 02 6272 3372iii

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Membership of writing group
Gordon Abraham (convenor) CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, VIC Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Cwlth), ACT (formerly Department of Primary Industries and Energy) Department of Agriculture, WA Department of Primary Industries, QLD Department of Primary Industries, Water and...