Veterinary office and consumer protection
These are our tasks
Healthy animals are the prerequisite for producing food that is safe for human health. In order to protect consumers from health hazards caused by food or infectious animal diseases, we monitor the conditions under which animals are kept on the one hand and the subsequent slaughter, processing and marketing stages on the other.
Our tasks in the area of consumer protection are shaped by the demands of a modern society on foodstuffs and luxury foods.
Animal diseases and animal by-products:
- Prevention and control of transmissible animal diseases and zoonoses.
- Implementation or monitoring of systematic
Animal disease control programs:
- Monitoring of livestock traffic regulations
- Monitoring of intra-Community and international livestock traffic
- Surveillance of animal travel
- Monitoring of animal markets and exhibitions
- Monitoring of the movement of animal by-products
Foodstuffs:
- Surveillance of the movement of foodstuffs, tobacco products, cosmetic
- products, consumer goods and other objects in the sense of the Food and Feed Code (Lebensmittel- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch)
- Professional enforcement of EU and national food law
- Hygiene monitoring in food establishments including sampling
- Monitoring of specific hygiene regulations for foodstuffs of animal origin (EU hygiene package) including performance of ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections
- Monitoring of slaughterhouses and cutting plants
- Surveillance of butcheries, direct marketers, hides and guts, game, meat and dairy processing plants.
- Detection and investigation of foodborne illness outbreaks in cooperation with the health department.
Animal Welfare:
- Monitoring of livestock operations and other facilities and operations subject to monitoring under animal welfare laws.
- Monitoring of animal welfare at slaughter
- Investigation of violations of animal protection law
Veterinary medicines:
- Monitoring of veterinary home pharmacies
- Surveillance of veterinary drug traffic at animal keepers
- Participation in the monitoring of the movement of narcotics
Feedstuffs:
- Feed sampling
Carrying out cross-compliance controls
