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Introduction to VPH (view source)
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Conventionally Veterinary Public Health as a topic covers the following areas:
Conventionally Veterinary Public Health as a topic covers the following areas:
=Food production & safety=
=Food production & safety=
It is desirable to consider food production as a chain, with animals on the farm (pre-harvest) then going for primary processing (harvest), secondary processing & distribution followed by final preparation (all post-harvest). This "Farm to Fork" concept can be easily described by considering a steer on a farm going to slaughter at the abattoir, then the hamburger production plant, then being distributed to a supermarket. It is then sold, taken home, stored, cooked & eaten.
Veterinary Public Health concerns all aspects of food production chain from controlling epidemic diseases that may impact on agriculture to ensuring slaughter is conducted safely & humanely to informing the public on safe ways to store & cook hamburgers.
=Zoonosis control=
=Zoonosis control=
=Environmental contamination=
=Environmental contamination=
=The role of animals in society=
=The role of animals in society=