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Regulation and Control: FCL and ante-mortem Flashcards

1
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What are the tasks of the official veterinarian?

A
  • Auditorial responses
  • Inspection
  • Food chain information
  • Ante-mortem
  • Animal welfare
  • Post mortem inspection
  • SRM
  • Lab testing
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Why is an ante-mortem inspection needed?

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  • Animal Welfare
  • Animal Helath
  • Public Health
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What are the pre-requisites for AM in the abattoir?

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  • Traceability met
  • Food chain information
  • Adequate facilities for examination- lighting, crush, access, detention
  • Operating requirments- adequate training, AWO
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4
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What is needed for the following species for traceability AM:
Cattle, Pigs, Sheep, Horse

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Cattle- Ear tage x2 and passport
Pigs- slap-marks (tattoos)/eartags and movement license
Sheep: electronic identification (eartags) and movement licences
Horses- transponder and passport

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What happens if traceability is not met?

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Complete loss- Animal killed and disposed off, enforcement maybe
Lapses- reported to local authority trading standards department

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Who is responsible for obtaining and evaluating the food chain information (FCI)?

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Food business operator

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7
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What does the FCI include?

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Health status of the animal
Withdrawal periods have been observed
Movement restrictions to holding area

The OV audits the FBOs decision

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What does the FCI include?

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Health status of the animal
Withdrawal periods have been observed
Movement restrictions to holding area

The OV audits the FBOs decision

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8
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What happens if the food chain information does not arrive with the animal?

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Detained alive or slaughtered but all the parts need to be kept seperate if slaughtered
If not recivied within 24 hours of the animals arrival at the slaughterhouse, all meat from the animal is ‘unfit for humans’

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9
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How is BSE active surveillace?

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Last case in NI in 2012

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10
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How is scrapie surveyed for?
What samples are tested?

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Active surveillance:
* Aged over 18 months (>2 permanent incisors)
* Sample of fallen goats/sheep slaughtered in participating slaughterhouses
* Fallen stock from CSFS

Passive transfer- slaughterhouse cases as per BSE

Samples- brainstem, cerebellum, increased analytical sensitivity and atypical scrapie

CSFS- compulsory scrapie flock scheme

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11
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What FCI is needed for pigs?

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Salmonella control plan
Controlled housing- trichinella?
All in/all out
Withdrawal/residues
Restrictions abnorm

Usually online

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11
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What FCI is needed for pigs?

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Salmonella control plan
Controlled housing- trichinella?
All in/all out
Withdrawal/residues
Restrictions abnorm

Usually online

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12
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What is surveyed for trichinella?

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  • Breeding domestic swines (sows and boars)
  • Wild boar (any age, whether wild or farmed)
  • Solipeds (any age)
  • All pigs that have not been reared in premises officially considered to apply controlled housing conditions
  • Exemption only applicable to domestic pigs: freezing treatment
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13
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What is neded for controlled housing?

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  • Building construction and maintenance
  • Pest-control programme and records
  • Feed provider
  • Storage of feed
  • Managment of dead animals
  • Rubbish dump in the neighberhood: inform and assessment of risk
  • Animal identification
  • Introduction of new animals from holdings officially recognised as applying controlled housing
  • No access to outdoor facilities unless the operator can show do not pose a danger for introduction of Trihinella in the holding
  • None of the swine for breeding and production, has been unloaded after leaving the holding of origin at an assembly centre
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What FCI information is needed for horses?

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Withdrawals
No med that would excuse
No analysis to suggest unsafe
Abnormality

Anything not in table 1 of allowed products is unauthorised
Prohibited are listed non-allowed drugs

15
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What sections of passports contain informaiton about FCI?

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Sections V and VI- all vaccinations
Section VII: laboratory health tests
Section IX: medicinal treatment
Section IX part IIa- decleration to stop the animal from entering the food chain

16
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How are substances allowed to be used in horses for food consumption?

A

They have MRLs and withdrawal periods

17
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What does the FSA have the power to do with suspicion of containing residues (authorised substances above MRL, unauthorised, prohibited)

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FSA has powers to detain animals for a further examination
Sample tissues/fluids taken for analysis
Detain the animal until results are available

18
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What are signs of beta-agonists use in live animal?

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  • Good conformation with little fat
  • Hyperaesthesia and tachycardia may be present
  • PM: flaccidity of the trachea

Urine collected

19
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What are signs of hormone growth promoters in live animals?
What sample is collected?

A
  • Secondary sexual characterstics
  • Teat development
  • Restlessness
  • Behavioural changes
  • Mounting
  • Aggression
  • Even level of finish in a group of cattle of different breeds
  • PM- oily injection sites in muscle

Blood and urine or faeces collected

20
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When does the antemortem inspection by the OV happen?
What are the outcomes?

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Within 24 hours of the animals arrival at slaughterhouse
Less than 24 hours prior to slaughter
Outcomes- fit for slaughter, under certain conditions, detained, unfit, humane killing whilst on lairage (welfare)

21
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What are exceptions to OV antemortem?

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Emergency slaughter- PM by OV, unfit for transport or fractious, certificate of comepence
Health certificate issued by OV- antemortem by approved vet, FCI given to FSA, MHI is satisified at certificate and welfare

22
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What is classed as unfit for transport?

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  • Unable to move independently
  • Present a severe open wound or prolapse
  • Pregnant females for whom 90% or more of gestation has passed or given birth in the previous week
  • They are newborn and the navel has not completely healed
  • Calves less then 10 days old
23
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How long can animals stay in larige for?

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No more then 48 hours
Carcasse and offal can still be detained depending on circumstances
For disease control
If >12 hours feed
Water at all times

Not chickens

24
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When are sick or injured animals considered fit for transport?

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  • Transport would not cause additional suffering
  • Transported under veterinary supervision following treatment/diagnosis
  • Have been subjected to veterinary procedures in relation to farming practices (dehorning, castration) provided wounds completely healed
25
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What impedes further processing?

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  • Dead on arrival (fallen stock)
  • Dead on lairage (fallen stock)
  • No FCI and/or tracability
  • No ante-mortem inspection by OV
26
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What happens when stock arrives dead on arrival?

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  • Should be reported to the APHA as suspected welfare in transport
  • PM performed by APHA should case result in prosecution
  • Owner must be informed and allowed own veterinarian to be present in PM exam
27
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What signs of animal welfare are noted?

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Pododermatitis
Emaciation
Rectal prolapse

28
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What is required for slaughter?

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  • Adequately stunned and killed
  • Where not stunned, religous practice- unconscious before release from restraint for a minumum- ovine 20s, bovine 30s
  • Dead before further undressed
  • Individually restrained: ruminants mechanically
  • Minimise restraint time
  • Must be stationary for duration of bleeding
  • restraining equipment checked and maintained in accordance with the instructions
29
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How are different animals slaughtered?

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30
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If animal welfare was disregarded what are the actions?

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If FBP has not put the procedures- animal to be killed ASAP
If FBO not aware- why
If FBO aware- enforcment
PM examination depends on age
Farm and transport- serious breech- immediate contact with local authority, no urgent APHA next working day
Lairage related- if due to structural issues or handling take enforcement

31
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What is the state of late pregnancy?

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Ante-mortem
Udder development, enlargment of abdomen, swelling of vulval lips, mucous discharge from vagina, tall slightly raised
PM- foetus close to term, hair gormation, eyelashes, open eyes, teeth
Estimation- crown to rump length +21 x2.5 = days

32
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What are reasons for detention at AM Inspection?

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Possible corrective measures
Altered behaviour
Further assessment

Year 4 Public Health (13 decks)

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