01/06/16 Flashcards
Animal welfare rules of surgical interventions on piglets.?
Animal welfare rules of surgical interventions on piglets.
- Tail docking or reduction of corner teeth: not routinely, only when there is evidence of
- injuries: tooth clipping within 7 days of birth
- Castration or tail docking after 7 days of age: only under anesthetics and additional prolonged
- analgesia by a veterinarian
Duties (work) of the European Commission.?
Duties (work) of the European Commission.
- Proposes new legislation
- Executive organ
- Guardian of the treaties
- Represents the EU on the international stage
Definition of directives in the EU.?
Definition of directives in the EU.
- Bind Member States as to the objectives to be achieved while leaving the national authorities
- the power to choose the form and means to be used
Definition of cruelty to animals in criminal law.?
Definition of cruelty to animals in criminal law.
- Any person who is engaged in the unjustified abuse or unjustified mistreatment of vertebrate
- animals resulting in permanent damage to the animal’s health or in the animal’s destruction;
- or who abandons, dispossess or expels a domesticated vertebrate animal or a
- dangerous animal is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- The penalty for a felony shall be higher, if the criminal offense is carried out in a manner to
- cause undue suffering to the animal, or results in permanent damage to several animals or in
- the destruction of more than one animal
Chlorine disinfectants.?
Chlorine disinfectants.
- Bleaching and germicidal properties
- Commonly used in disinfection, sanitizing and water purification
- In high concentrations: used for sewage treatment
- Readily available, inexpensive, broad antimicrobial spectrum and present minimal environmental hazards
- Very effective in the absence of organic material
- Factors affecting the efficacy: concentration, pH, presence of natural proteins and presence of ammonia
Definition of a rabid animal.?
Definition of a rabid animal.
An animal in which unquestionable laboratory tests have confirmed rabies.
Preventative measures of Duck viral enteritis.?
Preventative measures of Duck viral enteritis.
- No free keeping on natural water during the 2 weeks before egg laying
- Infected natural water: no susceptible birds for 2 years, except vaccinated broiler
- ducks
- Breeding and broiler flocks shall not be kept together
Public Health Measures in case of Glanders.?
Public Health Measures in case of Glanders.
- Notification of the public health service
- Informing the keepers
- Protective clothes, personal disinfection
- No treatment of infected animals
- SD: treatment only by veterinarian
Official measures in the protection zone in case of Bluetongue.?
Official measures in the protection zone in case of Bluetongue.
- Identification of all holdings
- Monitoring of sentinel groups of bovine animals
- Ban on animals leaving the zone
- Vaccination of animals and identification in protection zone may be decided
Official measures in case of confirmation of Newcastle disease on a holding.?
Official measures in case of confirmation of Newcastle disease on a holding.
- ALL poultry killed on spot, carcasses and eggs are destroyed
- Any substance or waste destroyed or treated
- Meat of slaughtered poultry during presumed incubation period is traced and
- destroyed
- Hatching eggs from presumed incubation period are traced and destroyed, poultry
- from such eggs is placed under official surveillance
- Cleaning and disinfection
- Reintroduction: at least 21 days after the end of the disinfection operations
