The series Food Safety Assurance and Veterinary Public Health focusses on all topics considered by the European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH) - a specialty college operating under the aegis of the European Board of Veterinary Specialization (EBVS) - to pertain to this veterinary discipline.
The following specific aims have been stated by ECVPH in their constitution as being associated with the Veterinary Public Health field:
a) the quality of animal health care and welfare by making available specialized knowledge and skills in the subspecialities of population medicine and food science to the benefit of animals
b) the quality of veterinary practice through contacts of general practitioners with registered specialists
c) the structure of animal health care through enhancing the application of formal risk assessment procedures, quantitative problem analysis methods, systems of monitoring and surveillance at population level, food safety and process quality management systems
d) the knowledge and perception of veterinarians, livestock owners, food processing industries and the general public
e) consumer protection with regard to prevention and control of foodborne hazards and food hygiene procedures
f) the further development of veterinary public health and its subspecialities (population medicine and food science)
g) the integrated, multidisciplinary approach towards analysis, control and prevention of hazards to human and animal health