†Three biomass types used for windrow formation
include woodchips, cornstalks, and a combination of half woodchips and
half cornstalks
‡Deep compost sample was at least 0.91m into the
carcass processed material of the compost. Shallow samples collected
from the outer section of the processed carcass material directly under
the carbon source covering of windrow
§ “-” denotes the swine DNA PCR was not performed on
that sample
¶ “neg” signifies a negative PCR test result on the
sample tested
Table 5: Real-time PCR ct results for swine DNA testing on air
samples† during carcass pre-processing