China's first fully enclosed SPF pig transport vehicle put into use

China's first fully enclosed SPF pig transport vehicle put into use

  The Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as "Ha Animal Research") announced on July 15th that it has been jointly designed by Ha Animal Research and Harbin Weike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Have Animal Science") The first fully enclosed SPF (Special Pathogen Free) pig transporter in China was officially put into use.

  Hashouyan said that transportation is a necessary link to connect the production and use of different levels of experimental animals, and the quality control of experimental animal transportation is an important part of the experimental animal quality control system. The transport truck is designed to meet the needs of SPF pigs and other experimental animals in the development and production of African swine fever and other major animal diseases.

  According to the introduction, the design of the transport vehicle starts from meeting the two basic principles of laboratory animal quality control and laboratory animal welfare, and at the same time meets the transportation requirements of other different breeds of SPF grade and sterile laboratory animals. The air duct design of the transportation vehicle adopts three-stage filtration system of primary, middle and high. It can be equipped with on-board transportation isolator and IVC cage to form a mobile barrier and isolation environment. It can transport both SPF pigs and sterile pigs. It can transport SPF chickens, SPF ducks, SPF mice, SPF dogs and other small and medium-sized experimental animals.

The overall dimensions of the vehicle (length × width × height) are 7050 × 2230 × 3180 (mm), and the compartment is divided into three sections: equipment section, use section and buffer (animal transfer) section, the length is 1000mm/4000mm/ 1000mm, can carry 36 special transport boxes, 72 piglets under 4 weeks old can be transported, 36 piglets can be transported for 6-8 weeks old, and adult SPF pigs can be transported directly using the barrier environment.

  The main body of the transport vehicle can be partially purified up to level 7, using full-in and full-out fresh air, the number of air changes is greater than 10, the pressure difference is greater than 20Pa, and the cold and heat adjustable temperature control system is equipped to ensure the comfort of experimental animals during transportation.

  At the same time, in order to ensure the safety, stability and long-term operation during transportation, three methods including diesel generator set, battery pack and external AC220V mains power during parking are designed to provide power for on-board equipment.

In addition, a vehicle-mounted camera is installed on the top wall of the front of the loading cabin of the transport vehicle, and a seven-inch display screen is connected to the camera in the cabin of the cabin. When in use, the camera can be used to monitor the situation in the loading cabin. Remote monitoring through the mobile APP network of the mobile phone to ensure the control of emergency situations and emergency treatment at any time during the transportation of live pigs.

  Hashou Research said that the official launch of the transport vehicle broke the bottleneck of my country's SPF and above-level experimental animals without special transportation vehicles, and also laid a solid foundation for establishing a quality control system for experimental animal transportation.

Located in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Harbin Research Institute was established in 1948. It is a supporting unit of the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology and the Veterinary School of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It has the only large animal biological safety level 4 facility in China-"National Animal Disease Prevention and Control of High-level Biosafety Laboratory".

  Historical research has made decisive scientific and technological contributions to China's control and eradication of "rinderpest", "bovine pneumonic epidemic" and "horse-borne poverty", as well as the successful development of a swine fever rabbit attenuated vaccine. In recent years, it has played an important scientific and technological support role in the prevention and control of "avian flu", "SARS", swine "blue ear disease" and piglet viral diarrhea, and played a major role in the prevention and control of African swine fever.

  Hashou Veken was established in 1992 and is a high-tech enterprise solely owned by Hashou Research with a registered capital of 100 million yuan. Mainly engaged in the research and development, production, sales and technical consulting business of animal vaccines and diagnostic products, with the focus on incubating, transforming and incubating the product development of the Harbin Institute of Technology.