Regulation and Control: FCL and ante-mortem Flashcards
(34 cards)
What are the tasks of the official veterinarian?
- Auditorial responses
- Inspection
- Food chain information
- Ante-mortem
- Animal welfare
- Post mortem inspection
- SRM
- Lab testing
Why is an ante-mortem inspection needed?
- Animal Welfare
- Animal Helath
- Public Health
What are the pre-requisites for AM in the abattoir?
- Traceability met
- Food chain information
- Adequate facilities for examination- lighting, crush, access, detention
- Operating requirments- adequate training, AWO
What is needed for the following species for traceability AM:
Cattle, Pigs, Sheep, Horse
Cattle- Ear tage x2 and passport
Pigs- slap-marks (tattoos)/eartags and movement license
Sheep: electronic identification (eartags) and movement licences
Horses- transponder and passport
What happens if traceability is not met?
Complete loss- Animal killed and disposed off, enforcement maybe
Lapses- reported to local authority trading standards department
Who is responsible for obtaining and evaluating the food chain information (FCI)?
Food business operator
What does the FCI include?
Health status of the animal
Withdrawal periods have been observed
Movement restrictions to holding area
The OV audits the FBOs decision
What does the FCI include?
Health status of the animal
Withdrawal periods have been observed
Movement restrictions to holding area
The OV audits the FBOs decision
What happens if the food chain information does not arrive with the animal?
Detained alive or slaughtered but all the parts need to be kept seperate if slaughtered
If not recivied within 24 hours of the animals arrival at the slaughterhouse, all meat from the animal is ‘unfit for humans’
How is BSE active surveillace?
Last case in NI in 2012
How is scrapie surveyed for?
What samples are tested?
Active surveillance:
* Aged over 18 months (>2 permanent incisors)
* Sample of fallen goats/sheep slaughtered in participating slaughterhouses
* Fallen stock from CSFS
Passive transfer- slaughterhouse cases as per BSE
Samples- brainstem, cerebellum, increased analytical sensitivity and atypical scrapie
CSFS- compulsory scrapie flock scheme
What FCI is needed for pigs?
Salmonella control plan
Controlled housing- trichinella?
All in/all out
Withdrawal/residues
Restrictions abnorm
Usually online
What FCI is needed for pigs?
Salmonella control plan
Controlled housing- trichinella?
All in/all out
Withdrawal/residues
Restrictions abnorm
Usually online
What is surveyed for trichinella?
- Breeding domestic swines (sows and boars)
- Wild boar (any age, whether wild or farmed)
- Solipeds (any age)
- All pigs that have not been reared in premises officially considered to apply controlled housing conditions
- Exemption only applicable to domestic pigs: freezing treatment
What is neded for controlled housing?
- Building construction and maintenance
- Pest-control programme and records
- Feed provider
- Storage of feed
- Managment of dead animals
- Rubbish dump in the neighberhood: inform and assessment of risk
- Animal identification
- Introduction of new animals from holdings officially recognised as applying controlled housing
- No access to outdoor facilities unless the operator can show do not pose a danger for introduction of Trihinella in the holding
- None of the swine for breeding and production, has been unloaded after leaving the holding of origin at an assembly centre
What FCI information is needed for horses?
Withdrawals
No med that would excuse
No analysis to suggest unsafe
Abnormality
Anything not in table 1 of allowed products is unauthorised
Prohibited are listed non-allowed drugs
What sections of passports contain informaiton about FCI?
Sections V and VI- all vaccinations
Section VII: laboratory health tests
Section IX: medicinal treatment
Section IX part IIa- decleration to stop the animal from entering the food chain
How are substances allowed to be used in horses for food consumption?
They have MRLs and withdrawal periods
What does the FSA have the power to do with suspicion of containing residues (authorised substances above MRL, unauthorised, prohibited)
FSA has powers to detain animals for a further examination
Sample tissues/fluids taken for analysis
Detain the animal until results are available
What are signs of beta-agonists use in live animal?
- Good conformation with little fat
- Hyperaesthesia and tachycardia may be present
- PM: flaccidity of the trachea
Urine collected
What are signs of hormone growth promoters in live animals?
What sample is collected?
- Secondary sexual characterstics
- Teat development
- Restlessness
- Behavioural changes
- Mounting
- Aggression
- Even level of finish in a group of cattle of different breeds
- PM- oily injection sites in muscle
Blood and urine or faeces collected
When does the antemortem inspection by the OV happen?
What are the outcomes?
Within 24 hours of the animals arrival at slaughterhouse
Less than 24 hours prior to slaughter
Outcomes- fit for slaughter, under certain conditions, detained, unfit, humane killing whilst on lairage (welfare)
What are exceptions to OV antemortem?
Emergency slaughter- PM by OV, unfit for transport or fractious, certificate of comepence
Health certificate issued by OV- antemortem by approved vet, FCI given to FSA, MHI is satisified at certificate and welfare
What is classed as unfit for transport?
- Unable to move independently
- Present a severe open wound or prolapse
- Pregnant females for whom 90% or more of gestation has passed or given birth in the previous week
- They are newborn and the navel has not completely healed
- Calves less then 10 days old
