Epidemic mat

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A disease mat has the task in under quarantine standing buildings and courtyards ensure that visitors to submit their before entering the building shoes disinfected .

Many animal diseases, such as foot and mouth disease, are spread by viruses that can stick to dirty shoes. Various disease protection regulations (including regulation for protection against vesicular swine disease ( VesikSchweinV ), regulation for protection against avian influenza ( GeflpestV ), regulation for protection against foot and mouth disease ( FMD ), regulation for protection of cattle against infection with the bovine herpes virus Type 1 ( BHV1V ) and the Ordinance on Protection against Aujeszky's Disease ( AujKrV ) provide for the use of epidemic mats as protective measures. The disregard of the required use of epidemic mats regularly constitutes an administrative offense according to § 76 para. 2 no. 1 lit. b) Animal Disease Act (TierSG), which can be punished with a fine of up to € 25,000, Section 76 (3) TierSG. In addition, any animal disease compensation to be paid can also be reduced.

In most cases, an epidemic mat is made of foam rubber , more rarely also of hemp fiber , which is soaked with a disinfectant solution or lies in a flat tub filled with disinfectant solution. If you step on the doormat , the disinfectant solution is pressed out of the mat, comes into contact with the dirt adhering to the shoe and washes it off as much as possible or at least disinfects the footwear. The size and layout of the mat must be such that it cannot be bypassed, thus ensuring reliable shoe cleaning. The disinfectant solution must be topped up regularly, as it is lost during use or through evaporation and the mat thus loses its effectiveness due to a lack of disinfectant solution.

literature

  • Scheidler, Alfred: The legal instruments for fighting avian flu , in: GewA 2006, 194–198.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tiho-hannover.de/service/mks/krisenplan_mks_tiho-hannover.pdf (April 11, 2010).
  2. ^ VG Potsdam, judgment of December 13, 2005 - Az .: 3 K 2461/01.
  3. ↑ cf. http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,405312,00.html (April 11, 2010).