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June 3, 2025 15 mins

Savannah Applegate, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant at Elanco Poultry Food Safety. Dr. Applegate received her B.S. degree in Meat Science from Ohio State University and her M.S. degree and Ph.D. in Applied Food Microbiology from Texas Tech University. Her areas of expertise are meat and poultry food safety, and she specializes in diagnostics and pathogen mitigation. 

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Dr. Applegate [1:10] about:

  • The importance of diagnostics for ensuring food safety and implementing effective disease management protocols in the poultry industry
  • Common misconceptions among industry about diagnostics and how to effectively implement diagnostic tests on-farm
  • Key first steps to integrating effective diagnostic testing protocols alongside biosecurity programs
  • The difference between serotyping data versus quantitative data, and the importance of both to determining the effectiveness of Salmonella vaccines for poultry
  • Support and solutions offered by Elanco for collecting and interpreting serotyping and quantification data to improve poultry food safety outcomes.

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