There is a critical relationship between animal welfare, animal
health and food safety.
A report (http://tinyurl.com/yedh82q ) aimed at
fostering harmonised risk assessment approaches on animal health
and welfare issues across the EU (and observer countries Norway,
Iceland and Switzerland) was published on 9 October 2009.
The main goal of this animal health and animal welfare
networking was to improve dialogue among member states and
observers and assist in the harmonisation of risk assessment
methodologies.
Many animal diseases can pose a risk to consumers via the food
chain or, less commonly, through other pathways including direct
transmission. Well known examples include Salmonella, Brucellosis
and BSE which can contaminate foods and cause illness among
consumers. Outbreaks of animal diseases can often have serious
socioeconomic and environmental consequences.
