Clinicopathological monitoring of animal health in the vicinity of large industrial complexes.

Construction of heavy industries beside dairy farms and major conurbations generates concern about human health on two levels. Firstly industrial chemicals, if released into the environment may affect human health directly; secondly, pollution of air, water, and vegetation can indirectly affect health through contamination of animals in the region, and of the food chain.

In association with the Veterinary Department of Cork Co. Council, a comprehensive clinical, clinicopathological, and productivity study of dairy cattle in the vicinity of a large complex of chemical industries has been undertaken for the past ten years. Surveillance parameters may be modified with time, and data assimilated can be correlated with other monitoring systems and has proven of immense value in reasurance to the general public, industrialists, and farming bodies.
 

Collaborator: Mr. J. Buckley, Veterinary Department, Cork Co. Council.

Contact name: Dr. H. Larkin, Department of Veterinary Pathology,

                                 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

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