Resumen de Vets and food safety

• INTEREST in food safety usually comes on the back of a major food safety incident, as happened in the 1990s, for example, with BSE. So it is good to see that the World Health Organization (WHO) has chosen ‘Food Safety’ as the topic for this year's World Health Day. Held each year on April 7, the day marks the founding of the WHO and is intended to draw attention to a subject of major importance to global health. Not all of the topics covered by previous World Health Days will have been of specific interest to the veterinary profession but, given the integral role of vets in helping to ensure safe food production, this one certainly should be....