Overview
Open Access publication
This book, the first of its kind, summarizes the critical technical points for effective management of NREs for national veterinary services
Provides the decision-making tools for response to NREs
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This Open Access volume explains how major nuclear and radiological emergencies (NREs) can have implications at local, national and international level. The response to NREs requires a competent decision-making structure, clear communication and effective information exchange.
National veterinary services have the responsibility to plan, design and manage animal production system in their countries. These activities cover animal health, animal movement control, production control and improvement, and control of the products of animal origin before their placement on the market.
Release of radionuclides after NREs can cause substantial contamination in the animal production systems. Critical responsibility of veterinary authorities is therefore to prevent such contamination, establish early response mechanisms to mitigate the consequences and prevent placement of contaminated products of animal origin on the market for human consumption.
This work summarizes the critical technical points for effective management of NREs for national veterinary services.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Gerrit Viljoen (DSc) is head of the Animal Production and Health Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre situated in Vienna, Austria since 2003. The Joint FAO/IAEA Centre is unique in that it is the only International Organization that has its own R&D Laboratories. At any given time the Subprogramme is responsible for about 60 national country projects (on a two year cycle) and 8 Co-ordinated Research projects (on a five year cycle) mostly in developing IAEA and FAO Member States. The main aims of the programmatic activities are in the development and transfer of appropriate technologies, training of targeted Member State animal production and health counterparts, the development/establishment of research capabilities and in the evaluation, validation and harmonization of procedures to improve animal production systems.
Dr LUCKINS Antony (PhD) worked for over 30 years at the Centre for Tropical Veterinarary Medicine, Edinburgh, dealing primarily with the pathogenic animal trypanosomiases that cause major livestock and zoonotic diseases in countries in Africa, Asia and South America. He was responsible for development, evaluation and or validation of nuclear and nuclear-related methods for improved diagnosis and surveillance together with studies on the pathology and pathogenesis of disease and its effects on reproductive functions. His work involved teaching students to higher degree level, training of scientists and development and management of research projects in institutes in developing countries. He has contributed to a number of Joint FAO/IAEA Centre co-ordinated research programmes on immunoassay technologies and worked with the Janimal Production and Health Section in the creation of projects designed to determine the potential of gamma irradiation of transboundary animal disease pathogens to develop attenuated vaccines and the use of stable isotopes in understanding the the epidemiology and ecology of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems, Preparedness, Response and Recovery
Editors: Ivancho Naletoski, Anthony G. Luckins, Gerrit Viljoen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63021-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The International Atomic Energy Agency 2021
License: CC BY IGO
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-63020-4Published: 01 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-63023-5Published: 01 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-63021-1Published: 31 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 195
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Public Health, Emergency Services, Animal Ecology, Nutrition