Environmental pollution, including toxic wastes

ABSTRACT

The veterinary practitioner has both the proficiency and the responsibility for dealing with exposure of animals to chemicals that have accidently or covertly polluted the environment. This responsibility requires maintaining animal health and preserving a wholesome human food supply, monitoring companion animals and food animals for evidence of hazardous amounts of chemicals in the environment, addressing the sanitation and public health aspects of catastrophic pollution problems, and supervising the confinement and evacuation of livestock and companion animals