2. Summarize the text by listing:

- role of Veterinary Services;

- food safety and quality approaches;

- professional groups that are involved in ensuring food safety;

- key role of Veterinary Services at farm;

- certification for international trade.

3. Re-read the text to find out which of its paragraph deals with:

- reducing and eliminating the risk of unwanted health effects;

- multidisciplinary approach to food safety;

- the duties of Veterinary Services at the slaughterhouse ;

- ante- and post-mortem meat Services in control of biological hazards;

- attesting that exported products meet food safety standards;

- the investigation of outbreaks of foodborne disease;

4. Re-read the text again to find out which of the following statements are true and which are false.

1. The only duty of the Veterinary Services is to provide health certification to international trading partners.

2. The Veterinary Services may provide livestock producers with information, advice and training on how to avoid, eliminate or control food safety hazards.

3. Biologists should have primary responsibility for the development of relevant inspection programmes.

4. The Veterinary Services play a key role in the investigation of foodborne

outbreaks.

5. There is no other professional groups which in addition to veterinarians are involved in ensuring food safety.

6. At slaughterhouse veterinarians have a dual responsibility – epidemiological surveillance of animal diseases and ensuring the safety and suitability of food.

7. Slaughterhouse inspection of live animals and the carcasses plays a secondary role in both the surveillance network for animal diseases.

5. The answers to the following questions are the summary of the text. Answer these questions and give the summary of the text.

1. How has the role of the Veterinary Services traditionally extended ?

2. In what way are food safety and quality best assured?

3. What is the most effective method in reducing or eliminating the risk of unwanted health effects?

4. What other professional groups are involved in ensuring food safety throughout the food chain?

5. What services play a key role in ensuring that animals are kept under hygienic conditions?

6. What services play a central role in ensuring the responsible and prudent use of biological products and veterinary drugs, including antimicrobials, in animal husbandry?

7. What plays a key role in both the surveillance network for animal diseases and zoonoses in slaughterhouses?

8. What Services provide health certification to international trading partners attesting that exported products meet food safety standards?

9. What are the reasons of reported outbreaks of foodborne disease ?

10)In close collaboration with what groups of people should the Veterinary Services work?

6. Does this text give you sufficient information about role of Veterinary Services?

What questions would you ask the author of the text?