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ANIMAL HEALTH

EASY MONITORING OF HEALTH AND MICROBIAL

STATUS OF POULTRY FLOCKS THANKS TO NEW

SCREENFLOX® SERVICE FROM EVONIK

• Improved livestock monitoring
• Reliable assessment of pathogen load
• Non-invasive analysis
Evonik releases a new service product group that enables
poultry producers to improve livestock production by moni-
toring the microbial status of entire flocks. ScreenFloX® is
the only environmental screening system that non-invasively
quantifies the levels of certain pathogens, including Clostrid-
ium perfringens, from an entire flock with a confidence ex-
ceeding 90%. Evonik launches new ScreenFloX® service at
WVPAC in Bangkok
The ScreenFloX® platform comprises a broad range of tests
and is designed to help veterinarians, livestock production
managers and farmers make smarter decisions to ensure ani-
mal well-being and food safety. for the entire flock using an unbiased, non-invasive method.
Dr. Christoph Kobler, Head of Product Line Sustainable The goal of using ScreenFloX® is to optimize overall livestock
Healthy Nutrition from Evonik said: “Current common practice production through an ‘early warning system’. This gives pro-
in animal diagnostics involves testing individual animals using ducers the chance to react before it is too late to adjust the
invasive methods. This includes necropsy, histopathology and production process.”
confirmatory testing which can easily take several days and The ScreenFloX® platform can perform multiple tests using
are expensive. a single sample and with minimal additional effort. Combin-
“ScreenFloX® is an environmental screening system that en- ing environmental screenings for avian and human pathogens
ables poultry producers to detect levels of different pathogens saves costs and time for poultry producers.
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