The Convenience Audit
The Convenience Audit is
MSD Animal Health’s set of
vaccination audits designed
to make vaccine preparation
and administration a safe, effective
and consistently accurate
undertaking. These
audits feature a proprietary
scoring system so deviations
from norms as well as improvement
subsequent to remediation
can be quantified.
Because of their prevalence
and complexity, the Convenience
Audit focuses on
process standardisation for
three methods of vaccine
delivery: subcutaneous injection,
spray application and
in-ovo injection.
For each method, attention
is placed on the vaccines
themselves (storage, prepar -
ation and handling) and the
administration of the vaccines
(equipment sanitation,
calibration and operation).
Standardisation of these
operational procedures is absolutely
essential to process
large numbers of birds
quickly and safely while
optimising vaccine uptake
throughout the flock.
Certain audit steps —
scrutiny of mixing room status,
liquid nitrogen management
(for Marek’s vaccine) and
vaccine preparation — are
common to all three vaccination
methods. They are shown
below. Process and audit
procedures for vaccine
administration are unique to
each method and are broken
out in each method’s section