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The traditional aviary decontamination process involves farmers applying pesticides to the aviary's ground. These agricultural defenses are easily dispersed in the air, making the farmers susceptible to chronic diseases related to recurrent exposure. Industry 5.0 raises new pillars of research and innovation in transitioning to more sustainable, human-centric, and resilient companies. Based on these concepts, this paper presents a new aviary decontamination process that uses IoT and a robotic platform coupled with ozonizer (O3) and ultraviolet light (UVL). These clean technologies can successfully decontaminate poultry farms against pathogenic microorganisms, insects, and mites. Also, they can degrade toxic compounds used to control living organisms. This new decontamination process uses physicochemical information from the poultry litter through sensors installed in the environment, which allows accurate and safe disinfection. Different experimental tests were conducted to construct the system. First, tests related to measuring soil moisture, temperature, and pH were carried out, establishing the range of use and the confidence interval of the measurements. The robot's navigation uses a back-and-forth motion that parallels the aviary's longest side because it reduces the number of turns, reducing energy consumption. This task becomes more accessible because of the aviaries' standardized geometry. Furthermore, the prototype was tested in a real aviary to confirm the innovation, safety, and effectiveness of the proposal. Tests have shown that the UV + ozone combination is sufficient to disinfect this environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contamination by living organisms in poultry litter may occur throughout the breeding stages of poultry. The presence of mycotoxins in poultry feed or poultry litter can affect poultry health and the safety of meat products. Pododermatitis is an injury to the plantar surface of the feet of poultry caused by nutritional factors and inadequate handling of poultry litter. The present work identified genera of filamentous fungi that produce mycotoxins, present in the poultry litter and its relation with tegument tissue of the chickens feet. As expected, the physical-chemical characteristics of the poultry litter as pH, moisture (mc) and water activity (aw) ranged from 6.3 to 8.7, 9.7 to 40.6% and 0.74 to 0.98, respectively. These conditions are ideal for the proliferation of fungi toxigenic to produced mycotoxins. Through scanning electron microscopy, it was possible to identify fungi of the genus Trichoderma, Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium that were present in all stages of breeding. Most isolated fungi can produce mycotoxins (aflatoxins, fumonisins/ deoxinivalenol/zearalenone and ochratoxin A, respectively). Tissue fungal infections (meat) can lead to possible contamination by fungal toxins, since the feet of the poultry are in direct contact with the aviary bed. This dermal contact with mycotoxins compromises the quality of the poultry foot that is currently a product of export to several countries and also the health of poultry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]