Proceedings of the Food Safety, Animal Welfare & Biosecurity Branch of the NZVA : annual conference, 21-23 June 2011, Claudelands Events Centre, Hamilton.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: New Zealand Veterinary Association. Food Safety, Animal Welfare & Biosecurity Branch. Conference, New Zealand Veterinary Association. VetLearn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellington, N.Z. : VetLearn, 2011.
Series:Publication (New Zealand Veterinary Association. VetLearn) ; no. 288.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Horned cattle : what's the point?
  • Is fitness for slaughter a useful benchmark of dairy farming welfare practice?
  • Public health & antibiotic use in animals : update
  • Monitoring chemical residues in meat
  • New tools improve our understanding of the epidemiology of food borne pathogens and inform food safety control policies
  • Robotics are improving food safety in meat processing
  • Training via IT : efficient e-learning 2010
  • Sanitary-phytosanitary standards & market access
  • Changing approaches from MAF to meet government's priorities
  • Market access verification : changing roles for vets
  • Measuring outcomes : achieving strategic initiatives
  • You (yes, you!), your clients and animal welfare : international drivers for change that will affect the way we farm and practice
  • Animal welfare in the NZ dairy industry : strategy into action
  • Implications of DairyNZ strategy and investment priorities for veterinary skills and business development
  • Making a difference to body condition score of cattle : turning an opportunity into a new exciting service
  • Making animal welfare programmes for dairy farms work in practice : obligations/ethics/power and productivity
  • DairyNZ animal husbandry programme & early response service
  • Tools and opportunities for dairy vets : the MAF Natinal Animal Welfare Plan
  • Exotic diseases : when the alarm bell should ring - clinical signs and the vet's role on farm
  • The National Biosecurity Capability Network : opportunities and roles for practising vets - what will happen to you if disaster strikes
  • National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT)
  • Conducting and interpreting research in practice : how solid is your evidence?
  • Bobby calf welfare standards are improving
  • Dear velvetting and animal welfare : current perceptions of acceptable practice - what has been acieved [sic] and where to go from here with the deer velvetting compliance monitoring strategy?
  • What role does vaccination play as a response tool for equine influenza?
  • New Zealand's quest for global agricultural trade liberalisation : in with a chance, or just tilting at windmills?
  • New Zealand's quest for global agricultural trade liberalisation : in the a chance, or just tilting at windmills? The China NZ free trade agreement example