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L5- Food safety intro (Definitions (Regulation definitions (Official…

- - - - Food= unsafe if injurious to health or unfit for human consumption
      - feed= unsafe if will have an adverse effect on human or animal health or will make the food derived for human consumption unsafe
  - - - responsible to control food production and contribute to food safety with ante and post mortem inspection tasks and auditing tasks
- - - - Setting up standards, e.g. defining words like adequate
      - the term 'Unless completely satisfied'=confusing
  - - - Structure/equipment
      - Documents
      - Working practices, e.g. hygiene, welfare
- - - - With OIE and WHO to tackle all food contaminents (farm2fork)
    - - vets working with WHO play crucial role in food safety
  - - - Current campaign on Campylobacter (also deals with other contaminants)
      - Approval of meat establishments, ante and post mortem inspection, auditing. Carrying out dairy hygiene inspections. Implement welfare and trade rules on behalf of VMD and DEFRA
    - - UK CCA (Central competent authority) at policy level for animal health, welfare and international trade with number of agencies
    - - Control notifiable disease
      - transport, import and export control of animals, products of animal origin, pathogens etc
      - Welfare legislation
      - investigate food contamination reports
      - surveillance of emerging diseases
      - Research into zoonotic/ economically important pathogens
      - Lab detection of pollutants
      - Research and education
      - comparative medicine (animal models of human disease)
      - Training of vets
    - - licensing and approval of pharmaceuticals and biologicals for use in animals
      - investigation of adverse drug reactions, and failures in efficacy
      - Surveillance for drug residues in meat and other animal derived foods
    - - Oversight and implantation of the animals (scientific procedures) act 1986
      - Review of ethics, cost-benefit, design and execution of research using live vertebrate animals
    - - Environmental health departments (EHP's-EHPractitioners) and Trading standards departments (THPs)
        
        tasks carried out on behalf of DEFRA and FSA, auditing of meat approved establishments, investigate reports of food poisoning, inspect food premises, riding establishments, pet shops, dog breeding establishments
- - - - typical infections
        
        Bacteria: ecoli, shigella, campy, salmonella, vibrio cholerae
        
        Protozoa: Giardia, Entamoeba, Cryptosporidium
        
        Viruses: Rotavirus, Enteric calicivirus
        
        Helminths: Trichinella, taenia saginata, taenia solium, ascariasis, trematodes
  - - - Industrial mass production
      - Consumer demand for less processed food
      - Change in methods of food prep (less effective control
      - intensive farm systems