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Gut Health & Food Safety Training

2025 - Bruges, Belgium

*** Dates 2025 will be communicated soon ***

Scope of the seminar:

  • Gut Health issues have broad implications for the overall health of birds, animal welfare, the production efficiency of flocks, food safety, and environmental impact. The importance of this topic has grown over the past two decades. In this training we will cover the main challenges in the gut health management (early feeding, coccidiosis control trends, dealing with bacterial enteritis and managing gut health issues and their consequences).
  • Food safety today is one of the top priorities in the poultry industry since poultry meat and eggs continues to be a major concern for consumers. Why is Salmonella Infantis such a challenge? Contaminants? In this training we will cover the link of food safety with gut health and the main challenges of food safety in poultry including zoonoses Salmonella, Campylobacter and antimicrobial resistance in the poultry production chain.

Parasitology Training: What makes this training unique is that it gives you a complete overview of the academic state of the art, while also providing you with the practical experience you need to put what you’ve learned into action on your farm.

We’re also unique in that our team has a wealth of global experience to share, so you can be confident that you’re getting the best possible training available.

Register for our live training in Brazil or Bruges – Poeke (Belgium) (2025) or our online streaming training (worldwide).

Who is it for: poultry professionals, veterinarians, growers, farmers, nutritionists, technical advisors.
Language: English
Accreditation: This training will be accredited by NGROD and WVEPAH.

Pricing

Live training
  • 2-days Food Safety: € 1.000
  • 3-days Gut health: € 1.500
  • 4-day GH & FS: € 1.950

*Pricing is excl. VAT

Online training
  • 2-days Food Safety: € 650
  • 3-days Gut health: € 975
  • 4-day GH & FS: € 1.300

*Pricing is excl. VAT

Hotel & Dinner

Hotel, per night: € 110 * in Bruges, Belgium.
Dinner, per night: € 60.
* Hotel rates are subject to change due to the high demand during high season.

Program

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Morning session

  • Welcome & Introduction ; form, function, flora
  • Necrotic and Bacterial enteritis: contributing factors
  • Coccidiosis: Life cycle and impact of coccidiosis in different types of production and diagnostics
  • Coccidiosis prevention tools, therapy, how to make sound anticoccidial program
  • Coccidiosis in breeders and long living birds

Afternoon session

  • Efficacy testing and safety of anticoccidials
  • Viral enteritis
  • Early feeding concepts

Morning session

  • Gut health management: growth promotors and alternative solutions
  • Monitoring systems for coccidiosis and bacterial enteritis
  • Interactive workshop: Gut Health Management, coccidiosis

Afternoon session

  • Recapitulation of scoring systems for coccidiosis and bacterial enteritis / footpad lesions
  • Practical session broilers: necropsy / lesion scoring coccidiosis and gut health / footpad scoring
  • Validation of cox and BE scoring

Morning session

  • Introduction for food safety : Interaction between food safety and gut health
  • Salmonella in poultry
  • Campylobacter: important pathogen in both humans and chickens?
  • How to fight AMR and reduce AMU : practical solutions
  • Feed quality: feed structure and anti-nutritional factors

Afternoon session

  • Basis of Biosecurity
  • Practical session: Biosecurity do’s and don’ts; Biosecurity Plan
  • Practical digital visits
  • Certificates Gut Health

Morning session

  • Residues & Contaminants
  • How to track Salmonella throughout the food chain
  • Prevention and control of Salmonella
  • Diagnostics on Salmonella, Campylobacter and AB resistance
  • Myths in food safety

Afternoon session

  • Workshop: Communication in food safety
  • Workshop: Real Case Salmonella Infantis in a Breeder/ Broiler Integration and crisis management
  • Food safety test and conclusions and certificates

Speakers

Maarten De Gussem
DVM & Global poultry consultant

Maarten is founder & global poultry consultant at Vetworks since 2009 providing support on poultry health topics with focus on mycoplasmosis, general gut health and coccidiosis.

Hilde Van Meirhaeghe
DVM & Global poultry consultant

Hilde is a global Poultry Consultant at Vetworks since 2010. She’s previously worked with DGZ and currently working with several partners and projects.

Africa Fernández-Gutiérrez
DVM, MRCVS & Global poultry consultant

Since June 2019, Africa works as Global poultry consultant at Vetworks with focus on breeder parent’s management, pathogens control, and biosecurity and health plans.

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*** Dates 2025 will be communicated soon ***

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