He said he can’t be certain the Hutterite colony’s disease outbreak came from blood plasma, but said there were too many links pointing in that direction.
He was speaking at the annual meeting of Alberta Pork.
Several other producers had strong words of criticism for allowing blood plasma to continue to be a nursery feed ingredient.
One said the issue was raised 14 years ago and a number of times since.
One said it’s like playing Russian roulette.
Alberta has had only this one outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus since 2922.
