Veterinary Public Health

16/09/2025

Our nurse Kate had her six Jack Russell puppies in today for their health checks with vet Kirsty. A few of them are still looking for their forever homes 🏡 😍

22/04/2025

Postgraduate Online Learning Open Days, MSc Food Safety, 21-22nd May 2025
Join us to discover how learning about food safety in online settings can boost your career prospects whilst fitting this around the busy lives of working professionals.
Postgraduate Food Safety draws on expertise from the Royal (Dick) Vet School, the Roslin Institute, Global Agriculture and Food Systems, all at the University of Edinburgh, and the Scottish Rural College. Our postgraduate qualifications are internationally recognised and offer several study options including, Masters, Diploma and Certificate. We also offer a choice of upskilling short courses (6 or 12 weeks) based on your area of interest. You could build course credits and gain a University of Edinburgh postgraduate award or academic credit for professional development.

If you would like to learn more about the MSc Food Safety, please join our session ‘’A holistic approach to food safety from farm to fork’’. You could join on either 21st May between 12- 1 pm or Thursday 22nd May between 3.30-4.30 pm. To register interest, please, visit https://edin.ac/4ijNUwP
If you wish to find out more about the MSc Food safety or find out what our alumni think, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/e_hsBJdv

15/05/2023

University of Edinburgh " Postgradiate Online Open Day" MSc Food Safety
Register here (free): https://edin.ac/2RJHv7K to join us at 15:00h (BST) on 25th May for a live session about the part-time, online MSc Food Safety taught by experts , at the University of Edinburgh and SRUC

01/05/2023

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/pesticides-food-latest-data-published

EFSA’s latest report on pesticide residues in food in the European Union is now available. It gives a snapshot of the residue levels found in a selection of commonly consumed products.

17/02/2023

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/7745

The impact of dry‐ageing of beef and wet‐ageing of beef, pork and lamb on microbiological hazards and spoilage bacteria was examined and current practices are described. As ‘standard fresh’ and wet‐aged meat use similar processes these were differentiated based on duration. In addition to ...

14/09/2022

Providing more space, lowering maximum temperatures, and keeping journey times to a minimum are all needed to improve the welfare of farmed animals during transport, according to recommendations published by EFSA.

14/09/2022

This scientific opinion focuses on the welfare of pigs on farm, and is based on literature and expert opinion. All pig categories were assessed: gilts and dry sows, farrowing and lactating sows, suckling piglets, weaners, rearing pigs and boars. The most relevant husbandry systems used in Europe are...

17/08/2022

Open Access article: The microbial condition of Scottish wild deer carcasses collected for human consumption and the hygiene risk factors associated with Escherichia coli and total coliforms contamination (Soare et al., 2022)

Wild deer hunting is necessary in Scotland to control deer population density, with most carcasses being processed for human consumption. As limited i…

09/02/2022

Maximizing societal benefit from the control of neglected zoonoses: Identifying synergies and trade-offs in the control of Taenia solium, by Cristina Soare, Amelia Garcia-Ara, Alessandro Seguino, Matthys Uys, Lian Francesca Thomas.

Interventions to control or eradicate neglected zoonoses are generally paid for through the public purse and when these interventions focus on the animal hosts, they are often expected to be performed and financed through the state veterinary service. The benefits of control, however, accrue across....