Severe breaches in veterinary supervision: study

The results of a research finding grave violations of the requirements of veterinary-sanitary supervision regulation in Moldova were presented on Friday, March 7, to the Supreme Security Council (SSC.) President Vladimir Voronin has asked to severely punished, even to fire, the heads of the institutions charged with sanitary-veterinary supervision who committed abuses and showed lack of discipline in exerting their job powers, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the Presidential press service. The study found no-observance of norms on organizing auctions to buy vaccines against animals’ infectious diseases. Inadequate conditions of preserving the meat, superficially verifying the quality of animal origin for sale, realizing an incomplete and non-professional expertise of veterinary medicines were established, too. The checkups discovered inadequate usage of public money, including embezzlements, in institutions charged with the sanitary-veterinary supervision. Vladimir Voronin has qualified as extremely worrying the state of things in the sanitary-veterinary system, following “irresponsible actions of top functionaries in the Republican Center of Veterinary Diagnosis, in the State Service for Frontier and Transport, in the Commission of Veterinary Medicine, in the State Veterinary Service of the Chisinau municipality and districts, in the Prosecutor’s Office. In the opinion of the President, this situation generates enhanced risks selling products of animal origin of low quality, what jeopardizes the sanitary-veterinary and food safety of the state. Voronin has underlined the need to speed up the process of re-organizing and optimizing the sanitary-veterinary service. The SSC and the Cabinet have to propose solutions in this respect within ten days.