Animal Health and Food Safety team is
responsible for all relationships and existing activities with the Ministry of
Health, in particular with the Department for Veterinary Public Health,
Nutrition And Food Safety. The
Ministry of Health identified the need to undertake an extensive training
throughout the country regarding animal welfare, aimed at informing farmers of
the contents of Legislative Decree 146/01 (Directive 98/58 EC) on the
protection of farm animals ,
according to art. 2,
paragraph 2. AIA and the Research Institute of Livestock of Lombardy and
Emilia-Romagna (IZSLER) - the Ministry of Health national dedicated center for
animal welfare - have signed an agreement for the organisation
and execution of the training project "Training Course on the welfare of
farm animals in breeding", funded by the Ministry itself.
The Ministry of Health prepared, jointly with
AIA, the national plan for animal welfare (PNBA). The
training is related to on farm management in particular on the best approach to
animals and the minimum standards of animal welfare. As stated under the PNBA,
that farms run by farmers who have taken and passed the training organised by
AIA, are to be considered at lower risk for infringement of animal welfare
rules and know better what should be taken into account in controls’ s planning.
On animal health, AIA shares the Ministry of
Health’s willingness to improve the traceability of veterinary medicine and
participates in, jointly with other organisations in the livestock chain, the
preparatory meetings that led to the drafting and adoption of new guidelines on
traceability of
veterinary medicine and the new model of veterinary prescription.
In 2009, the
Feeding and Nutrition Technical Commission and its related working groups, decided
to revise the feeding containing animal by-products (Reg. 1774 / 2002), the
prohibitions of the OA constituents to ruminants (Reg. 999 / 01), official
controls (domestic and import) and sampling. It
was reviewed all legislation on feed additives, undesirable substances and
contaminants, as well as rules on labeling of feeding (simple, compound,
medicated, dietetic, additives and pre-mixtures).
As per food security, the four AIA’s guidelines
on good hygiene practices (dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep and goats and rabbits),
validated by the Ministry of Health, are now published on the website www.salute.gov.it.
For further information please contact
Riccardo Negrini - Email: negrini.r@aia.it
