Code: | MV425 | Acronym: | SP |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Food Hygiene |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Population Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Integrated Masters Degree in Veterinary Medicine |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MIMV | 71 | Plan 2007 to 2017 | 4 | - | 4,5 | 64 | 121,5 |
The purpose it to equip students with the concepts and fundamentals of Veterinary Public Health (SPV) as it is understood at present. The teaching includes knowledge of the political, economic and social framework needed to understand the SPV. The students, at the end of the course, shall have the interpretive keys to enable them to understand and meet the expectations of society towards the performance of veterinarians in the exercise of their profession. The contents of the discipline addresses the scientific, technical and legal relevant issues as well as the methodologies adopted to ensure food safety, animal health and welfare of the animals thus contributing to the high levels of public health that European citizens rightly expect from the systems of food production and the food chain as a whole.
Students get to know the scope, duties and skills required of Veterinary Public Health. Begin to master the principles of Food safety and methods to achieve them including the instruments for control and monitoring applicable from the primary production-to consumption of foodstuffs, through all stages of the chain. They begin to know the applicable law and are to understand the relevant issues relating to animal welfare and public health problem of the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.
Explanation of the program. Each topic coincides with one hour of lecture or two hours of classroom seminar. The sequence of lessons and topics may be subject to change.
1. Presentation of the Course 2. Introduction to Veterinary Public Health - One World One Health 3. Food safety - Fundamentals, principles, objectives and framework 4. International organizations and SPV 5. Epidemiology of foodborne diseases; 6. Factors influencing the metabolism of microorganisms in foods 7. Food Law (LA): Reg 178/2002 8. Fundamentals of prevention of changes in food 9. LA: Legislation operator 10. Risk Analysis in Food and Animal Health; 11.Sistemas Quality companies; 12. Objectives of food safety and microbiological criteria; 13.Prevenção and control of safety and quality of food I - HACCP; 14.Prevention and control of safety and quality of food II - GOOD PRACTICE; 15.Acreditação and certification, international organizations and European brands ; 16.Rastreabilidade, 17 and 18. LA: Legislation of official controls; 19.Well animal welfare: concepts and fundamental laws.
Presentations in the form of seminars; 1. Organization and functions of veterinary services in Portugal 2. Control performed by TRACES and PIF 3. Veterinary medicinal product legislation and associated resistances to antibiotics 4. ISO 9000 system and process organization.
Topics to be discussed in the form of monographs: 1. West Nile Virus 2. Control Salmonella in livestock species 3. International Organizations and Veterinary Public Health, 4. A World A Health - Food safety (food security); 5. Training and lifelong education; 6. Q fever 7. Tularaemia; Anger 8.
Lectures: oral presentation of topics. Practical classes: document analysis and discussion of the case law. Monographs: performing work on the themes proposed monoigrafia advance. Seminary classes presented by invited speakers.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 50,00 |
Participação presencial | 15,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 35,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
1. Um exame final contribui com 50% da nota final. 2. Uma monografia elaborada ao longo do ano, por grupos de 3 a 4 alunos, contribui com 35% da nota final. 3. Os relatórios dos exercícios das aulas práticas contribuem com 15% da nota final. As aulas práticas decorrem com grupos de 6 alunos no máximo.
Final Rating = (0.5 * Note the final exam) + (0.35 * Note of the Monograph) + (0.15 * Note from the participation in the discussions in practical classes and written reports of thepractical work)
Prerequisites for final approval: 1. Required minimum score of 10 on the written examination. 2 Attendance is compulsory at least 75% of classes and delivery of their respective reports. 3. Minimum grade of 10 in practical work and 10 in the monographs. Attendance is compulsory at seminar classes.
Monographs: Control of Salmonella in pigs; West Nile Virus; international organizations and Veterinary Public Health; Concept of One World One Health and implications for teh Veterinary Profession.
The bibliography and abstracts of the course are available in PDF on the site.