animal health

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    • hormones
      Are used to manipulate fat
      Risk of cancer, genetic problems and brain disease
      Children of most risk
      Banned in the UK
      Pressure from US to accept imports as part of new USUK trade
    • residues
      Allergies and cancer
      Valuation on scientific process must occur to determine Mrl and withdrawal period
      MRL, accepted by EU
      Records for traceability
      Veterinary medicines, director runs national residue surveillance scheme
    • resistance
      Over or misuse
      Intensive factory, farming methods
      Hi, number of animals kept closely together
      Antibiotics given the whole herd
      Manure or slurry leads to bacteria in soil and water
      UK. 55% reduction since 2014.
    • drugs
      Impact on human pregnancy
      Toxic affects on developing embryo
      Leading to congenital malformations
      Concern my transfer to humans
    • allergies
      4-11% allergic to penicillin
      Access penicillin in beef and pork leading to anaphylaxis
    • mycotoxins
      Naturally produced by certain types of mould
      Chemically stable and survive food processor
      Result of more than faction of crops, both before, and after harvest
      Acute-symptoms of severe illness after consumption
      Long-term - cancers and immune deficiency
      visible mould, changes and milk, yields, lower pregnancy rates
      Review testing regimes and undertake more routine sampling
      occur in hotspot
      Frequency and level may increase due to climate change
    • prions
      Rare, progressive, neurodegenerative disorders
      Harmless animal tissue components that transform
      BSE, 1980s 4.4 million cattle, slaughtered
      Me and bone meal prepared from caucuses of Scrapie shape
    • dioxins
      Environmental pollutants, last long time, absorbed by fat
      Contaminated animal food
      2008, pork 200 times over safe limit in Ireland due to contaminated feed
      1999 poultry in Belgium, illegally disposed PCB-based, industrial oil
      Reproductive and developmental problems, immune system
      Hormones and cancer
    • daera
      animal feed regulations, 2016
      Farmers must comply to store and handle feed to
      -Prevent hazardous contamination
      -Prevent animals, causing contamination
      -Prevent food, spoilage
      -Keep medicated feed separate from other feed
      -Accurate traceability records
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