European Pig Vets Start New Association
The objectives of the new association are primarily educational to increase contact and interaction across an increasingly borderless Europe but also to represent its interests and views on increasingly important aspects of welfare, health and production that are on the horizon.
It was felt that although the European College of Porcine Health Management already existed, its focus was more on education, research and through a series of internships, the development of new researchers and pig specialist diplomates for the future. This left the practitioner side under-represented and without a harmonised post-graduate education, as well as life-long learning opportunities. In order to rectify this, it was approved at the recent College’s symposium in Hanover vet school in Germany to form the new Association based on a working party’s recommendations.
Defra has published guidance for the vet sector ahead of a proposed UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement.
