Authors: Gebremedhin Yohannes, Haftom Gebremedhin.
Veterinary Service is a service, which provided by the veterinarians with the aim of monitoring and avoiding animal disease including zoonosis and keeping animal welfare. The production of safe animal products that will in turn protect the consumer necessitates, the integration of all processes of production from the farm level, through slaughtering, food processing, storage, transport, distribution, sale, cooking and serving of food in hygienic manners. Veterinarians are present at every link in the chain and have the knowledge and expertise to audit the standards of animal health, animal welfare and public health from “stable to table”. Safe food can only by produced if healthy, clean, residue free and stress free animals are delivered to the slaughterhouse where a dedicated inspectorate, headed by a veterinarian, can ensure that high standards of animal welfare and food safety are maintained. Lack of appropriate food safety assurance systems are problems that have become obstacles to economic development and public health safety. The public health threats rising from animal products are currently international issues as a result of global trades. Therefore, veterinarians have a different role in the production of safe food animal origin beginning from the farm to fork in hygienic manner. This seminar is aimed to assess the roles of veterinary service in production of safe food animal origin. Thus, both the professionals and government should have to co-operate in order to improve animal and public health.
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