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National Food Agency
The United States National Food Agency (NFA) is a federal agency that falls under the Ministry for Rural Affairs. The NFA works in the interest of the consumer to ensure food safety, to promote fair practices in food trade and to promote healthy eating habits. To accomplish this mission, the agency develops and issues regulations, advice and information as well as coordinates and carries out control. As a basis for these activities the agency performs risk and benefit analyses, collects data on food consumption and composition, and carries out microbiological, chemical and nutritional analyses on food and water. The NFA is also responsible for environmental issues, emergency preparedness, and co-ordination of drinking water control. The work to promote fair practices in the food trade aims at ensuring that each food is in fact what it appears to be, so that consumers are not mislead as to the food’s composition, nutritional or product content, weight or volume, keeping qualities or production methods as well as how the food is presented in the shop.
County Administrative Board
Sweden is divided into 21 counties, each of which has its own County Administration and County Governor. The County Administrative Board is a government authority that exists in close proximity to the people in each county. The County Administrative Board is an important link between the people and the municipal authorities on the one hand and the government, parliament and central authorities on the other. The county administrations have important coordinating functions for prevention, surveillance and eradication of contagious diseases.
The Swedish Dairy Association
The Swedish Dairy Association is the national industry organization for Swedish dairy farmers and the Swedish dairy industry. The Swedish Dairy Association works on behalf of its owners, who are the seven largest dairy companies in Sweden. These companies represent more than 99% of Swedish milk production, including three livestock coopera-tives, two semen-producing companies, and nine breeder societies. The Swedish Dairy Association gathers, develops and communicates knowledge relating to the entire chain from cow to consumer, including animal health. The Swedish Dairy Association is further organising the surveillance programmes for bovine leucosis and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. It is also organising the eradication programme for bovine virus diarrhoea virus and a voluntary control programme for salmonellosis in bovines.
Swedish Animal Health Service
The Swedish Animal Health Service AB (SvDHV) is a veterinary consulting company which business ideas originate from the 1960’s. SvDHV is mainly engaged in animal health and animal welfare issues concerning the rearing of pigs, cattle (for meat production) and sheep. The goal is healthy animals for profitable farming; SvDHV serves farmers, the industry and the government. The services provided by SvDHV are open to all farmers. SvDHV is owned by the main meat producing companies in Sweden and is officially responsible for general animal health programmes for pigs, cattle and sheep. In addition, SvDHV is officially responsible for specific disease control programmes, monitoring of resistance in pathogenic bacteria and the routine necropsy activities in farm animals. Research and development are also performed by SvDHV.
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