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