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Cabinet Regulation No. 7 of 1999 on Procedures for Registration of Infectious Diseases

Country/Territory
Latvia
Document type
Regulation
Date
1999 (2013)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Latvijas Vēstnesis, 5/6, 08.01.1999.
Subject
Livestock, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Public health Data collection/reporting Inspection Processing/handling Hygiene/sanitary procedures Disinfection/disinfestation Governance Animal health Pests/diseases Procedural matters
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe
Abstract

This Regulation prescribes the procedures by which the cases where human infectious diseases and infection therewith have been determined and cases where infectious disease-causing agents have been determined shall be registered; and the Food and Veterinary Service and the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shall exchange information regarding cases where infectious diseases referred to in Annex 1 to this Regulation have been detected in humans or animals, as well as regarding cases where the disease causing agents have been detected in food products or in the environment of food undertakings. Registration of infectious diseases and their causal agents in the case of their determination shall be an epidemiological surveillance measure that includes reporting on infectious diseases and recording thereof. The Regulation further provides that the territorial unit of the Food and Veterinary Service and the epidemiologist of the relevant regional department of the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shall, within not more than two days, exchange information regarding the cases when infectious diseases or the relevant disease-causing agents have been detected if: substantiated suspicions regarding infection of a human while using certain food products in nutrition or being in contact with animals have arisen, as well as if the disease-causing agents have been detected in food products or in the environment of food undertakings; or any of the diseases referred to in Annex 1 to this Regulation has been detected in an animal and there is a possibility of human infection.

Full text
English/Latvian
Website
likumi.lv

References - Legislation

Implements

Epidemiological Safety Law (1997)

Legislation | Latvia | 1997 (2018)

Keyword: Environmental standards, Monitoring, Public health, Governance, Enforcement/compliance, Liability/compensation, Research, Disinfection/disinfestation, Standards, Protection of environment, Animal health, Pests/diseases

Source: FAO, FAOLEX