The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has agreed to the following guidelines to conduct inspections to minimize biosecurity risks to the animals in housed commercial swine feeding operations. These guidelines are necessary because state and local inspectors present an element of disease risk due to their other professional duties that may involve livestock. These guidelines are meant to reduce risk and yet allow inspectors to accomplish a meaningful inspection of a housed commercial swine feeding operation. These guidelines apply if the inspector enters the operation, not if the inspector remains outside of the property boundary of the operation.
