Verifying Credence Attributes in Livestock Production

Verifying Security Policies Using Host Attributes

For the formal verification of a network security policy, it is crucial to express the verification goals. These formal goals, called security invariants, should be easy to express for the end user. Focusing on access control and information flow security strategies, this work discovers and proves universal insights about security invariants. This enables secure and convenient auto-completion o...

Antimicrobial Resistance in Livestock Production

Salmonella is a foodborne pathogen generally associated with mild to moderate self-limiting gastroenteritis. In the United States the incidence of salmonellosis (16.37 cases per 100,000 population/ year) ranked highest among the pathogens tracked by FoodNet in 2012 (CDC, 2014). Furthermore, invasive infections accounted for 5% of the reported salmonellosis cases during 1996-2006 (Jones 2008). W...

Livestock Production Systems

How Much Credence Does It Take? Evidence on the Trade-Off between Country-Of-Origin Information and Credence Attributes for Beef from a Choice Experiment in Sweden

Based on a discrete choice experiment with 336 consumers, this study investigated whether the consumer propensity to choose a simplified European Union (EU) vs. non-EU denomination of origin for beef, instead of a specific country-of-origin (COO) denomination, depends upon the amount and type of credence information provided to the individual. The likelihood of choosing the EU/non-EU denominati...

Disinfection of livestock production premises.

Livestock production premises (e.g. barns, and pens for lambing, calving, weaning and holding animals) encounter disease problems mainly associated with the housing of new-born and young animals, pregnant females and suckling mothers. The author describes a programme of cleaning and disinfection for use during the routine operation of livestock premises. A further programme is described for use...