Bavaria: Food and animal welfare monitoring with a new location in Buchloe
Another department of the Bavarian Food Safety and Veterinary Control Authority has started work in Swabia at the Buchloe site.
17 October 2020
The new office of the Bavarian Food Safety and Veterinary Control Authority (KBLV) in Swabia has started work. As Bavaria's consumer protection minister Thorsten Glauber declared last week at the official starting shot, the location in Buchloe “created an additional powerful pillar for food and animal welfare monitoring in Bavaria”. As in Kulmbach and Erding, interdisciplinary control teams also worked in Buchloe. With this concept, Bavaria is a pioneer in consumer health protection throughout Germany. “And we're going one step ahead: Our goal is a 'Control Concept 2030' for a comprehensive further development of the veterinary system and food monitoring,” explained Glauber.
Teams included veterinarians, food chemists, food inspectors, veterinary assistants, agricultural engineers and lawyers. From the Buchloe location in particular the animal husbandry, food and non-food businesses located to the west of Munich are checked. All poultry farms with more than 40,000 places and, since July 1, 2020, special cattle and calf fattening farms are monitored by the control authorities. On December 1st, large pig farms were still under the jurisdiction of the KBLV. The number of their operational controls in 2019 was around 2,000.
From:https://www.topagrar.com/schwein/news/bayern-lebensmittel-und-tierwohlueberwachung-mit-neuem-standort-in-buchloe-12376140.html?utm_source=topagrar