Wider Context Flashcards
What is the role of vets on the farm?
- preventative medicine
- treatment + proper use of antibiotics (resistance)
- residue control
- animal welfare
- emergency slaughter
- animal i
What is the role of the vet at a livestock market?
- montior animal welfare
- notifiable diseases control
- ID’s control
What is the role of the vet at a slaughterhouse?
- Inspection: **-welfare-hygiene control-*notifiable diseases *
- communicate findings
- audits
- enforcement
- managers
What are WORLWIDE authorities?
The UN - 192 member states discuss and take action on world issues
WHO - health authority within the UN
- sets standards
- monitor health trends
- support in-need countries
FAO - Food and Agriculture within the UN
- leads effort to defeat world hunger
- help countries modernize agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
OiE - world organisation for animal health (177 member countries + territories)
- leads fight against animal diseases (international zoonoses office)
What are EUROPEAN authorities?
European Food Safety Authority: food and feed safety, nutrition, animals health and welfare, pland health/protection
European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control: identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases
What are the UK authorities?
Department of Health: setting strategy and policy for the preventrion, treatment and control of infectious diseases + notifiable diseases
Health Protection Agency: independant body to provide protection of UK public health trhough support/advice to NHS, Local Authorities, emergency services, dep. of health
Food Standards Agency: whole food chain, non-ministerial government department
- official audit and inspection services in approved slaughterhouses etc.
- insures meat industry safegaurds public health + animal welfare
- enforcement of legislation
**DEFRA: **Government deparment oversees environment, rural affairs and farming/food through smaller agencies:
- *Animal Health: *insure that farm animals across britain are heathy, disease free and well looked after (VPH, Animal Welfare, International Trade)
- VLA (lab): outbreak control teams to combat zoonotic illnesses + veterinary investication
Health and Safety Executive: ensures risks in the workplace are properly controlled
What is the role of LOCAL authorities?
- investigation into outbreaks of foodbourne illness
- power to sample and seize
- enforce legislation
Define an INCIDENT.
Any event where, based on the information available, there are concerns about actual or suspected threats to the safety or quality of food that could require intervention to protect consumers interest.
Define an OUTBREAK.
An incident in which two or more persons have the same disease, similar symptoms or excrete the same pathogen and represent a sudden increase in the observed cases in a particular region compared to the expected cases.
Define a NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.
any disease that is required by law to be reported to government authorities (AH). In the UK notification of diseases in animals is regulated by section 88 of the Animal Health Act 1981.
What are the REPORTABLE DISEASES?
Salmonella and Brucellosis under the Zoonoses Order 1989. If detected in samples tested in a laboratory, must be reported to the local VLA (In England and Wales), and to the local Divisional Veterinary Manager in Scotland.
