Veterinary Certificates Flashcards
Impartiality
The Veterinary Services should be impartial. In particular, all the parties
affected by their activities have a right to expect their services to be delivered under
reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions.
Integrity
The Veterinary Services should guarantee that the work of each of their
personnel is of a consistently high level of integrity. Any fraud, corruption or falsification
should be identified and corrected
Objectivity
The Veterinary Services should at all times act in an objective,
transparent and non- discriminatory manner
What are the strategies for the control of diseases?
• Doing nothing (e.g. relying on endemic stability)
• Quarantine (e.g. rabies quarantine for dogs)
• Slaughter (e.g. FMD, tuberculosis, brucellosis, BSE, mastitis)
• Vaccination
• Therapeutic and prophylactic chemotherapy (e.g. anthelmintics, prophylactic feed
medication, prophylactic use of antibiotics)
• Control movement of hosts (e.g. African horse sickness, trypanosomiasis, fascioliasis,
babesiosis)
• Mixed, alternate and sequential grazing
• Control of biological vectors (e.g. tsetse, Limnea truncatula. Condemnation of meat
containing cysticercus bovis cysts)
• Control of mechanical vectors (personal hygiene, cleansing and disinfection of cattle
lorries etc., foot baths and wheel washes)
• Fomite disinfection (food-borne infection, heat treatment, prevention of iatrogenic
transmission)
• Improvement in environment, husbandry and feeding (e.g. control of mastitis, neonatal
mortality)
• Genetic improvement removal of a genetic defect, genetic screening (e.g. scrapie, Mareks’
disease – more resistance)
• Minimal disease methods (SPF animals – raised in microbe free area/sterile – may be more
sensitive to infections)
Common rules for disease control
- NOTIFICATION
- HARMONIZED CONTROL MEASURES
- UNIFORMITY OF DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES
- CONTINGENCY PLANS
- EPIDEMIOLOGICAL UNITS
- FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Disease outbreak important point
• SUSPICION • CONFIRMATION • EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION • STAMPING-OUT – notifiable • ZONES WITH MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS
Regionalisation in EU
• APPLY STRICT CONTROLS TO A DEFINED AREA OF THE COMMUNITY TO CONTROL AND ERADICATE A
DISEASE
• PREVENT SPREAD OF DISEASE FROM THE DEFINED AREA
• PERMIT FREE MOVEMENT OF ANIMALS/PRODUCTS OUTSIDE THE DEFINED AREA
Veterinary Public Health - Animal production
• Control and eventual eradication of specific zoonoses
• Prevention of occupational hazards and diseases connected with live animals and their
products in both rural and urban environments
• Establishment of diagnostic, surveillance and information systems (Atb resistance due to
imprudent use for animals)
• Control of animal populations which may serve as disease reservoirs
Checks & other measures related to journey log to be carried out by the competent
authority before long journeys
In the case of long journeys between Member States and with third countries for domestic equidae and domestic animals of bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species, the competent authority of the place of departure shall carry out appropriate checks to verify that:
o Transporters indicated in the journey log have the corresponding valid transporter authorisations, the valid certificates of approval for means of transport for long journeys and valid certificates of competence for drivers and
attendants;
o The journey log submitted by the organiser is realistic and indicates compliance with the regulation
What animals can be used other then lab animals in lab experiment?
The animal health authority may give license for the use in animal experiments of:
o Farm animals and companion animals.
o Animals taken from the wild (protected species: if it is approved by the
nature preservation authority)
• Non-human primates and stray and feral animals of a domesticated species shall not
be used in animal experiments (exemption only on the basis of scientific justification).
