text: Chapter 6
  * Provide veterinary public health guidance, consultation, and clinical support regarding zoonotic
  diseases, including veterinarian participation in installation and command rabies advisory teams
  or boards, and in conducting the animal rabies control program.
  * Advocate for and provide consultation for animal welfare on DOD installations.
  * Provide advocacy, veterinary consultation, and support for DOD Human-Animal Bond Programs,
  DOD animal-assisted activity/therapy programs, and service/assistance animals owned by
  authorized beneficiaries.
  * Provide veterinary coordination, manning, and support to plan and conduct agricultural, veterinary
  public health, and animal health activities across the competition continuum (DOD Stabilization;
  Defense Support to Civil Authorities; Global Health strategic goals to include cooperative threat
  reduction activities to counter weapons of mass destruction through Global Health Security
  Agenda initiatives and global health engagement). Refer to DODD 3000.05, DODD 3025.18,
  DODD 2060.02, and DODI 2000.30 for more information.
  * Train and equip Army veterinary service personnel, including veterinarians and veterinary food
  safety officers with relevant specialty training, to enable food protection, animal health and
  welfare, veterinary public health, and, when required by the DOD Components, for research,
  development, test, and evaluation and training.
  * Conduct Food and Water Risk Assessments on hotels, restaurants, caterers, host nation military
  dining facilities, and other food facilities being evaluated as a source of food or water for United
  States Forces.
  * Identify requirements for veterinary services information systems.
  6-3. The Secretary of the Air Force provides the food inspection program at Air Force bases and may
  develop locally approved lists of food suppliers from which food products are procured only for individual
  Air Force installations.
  6-4. Appropriate veterinary units provide this support. These units can be task-organized to support food
  protection, food protection (food safety and food defense), quality assurance, and/or the medical care mission
  for military and contract working dogs, and other government-owned animals. The food protection mission
  includes food safety, food defense, and quality assurance inspection and surveillance activities associated
  with food sources, distribution, warehousing, bulk storage, food quality, food vulnerability, and food and
  water risk assessment. The United States Army Veterinary Service is responsible for publishing a directory
  of approved food sources for the AO. Veterinary public health reduces transmission of zoonotic diseases;
  monitors, assesses, and mitigates endemic animal disease threats to working animals and CONUS
  agricultural systems; monitors animals as sentinels of threats to humans or other animals by investigating
  unexplained animal deaths. It is an effective combat multiplier through monitoring endemic animal disease
  threats of military significance and zoonotic disease threats to Service members. The animal medical care
  mission provides comprehensive medical and surgical care for MWDs, other government-owned animals,
  contract working dogs, and other animals authorized care in the AO. The potential of foodborne disease, the
  threat of CBRN contamination of subsistence, the need to assess and mitigate the zoonotic and endemic
  animal disease threat, and the need to provide animal medical care to working dogs requires a veterinary
  presence throughout the entire operational area. Comprehensive veterinary medical and surgical programs
  are required to provide casualty care for and maintain the health of military and contract working dogs in
  order to optimize their detection and patrol capabilities to protect the Service members. Refer to Table 6-1
  for primary tasks and purposes of veterinary services.
  Table 6-1. Primary tasks and purposes of veterinary services
  Primary task Purpose
  Provide veterinary medical care for military and contract working
  Provide animal medical care ­
  dogs and other government owned animals.
  Conduct food protection Ensure quality, food safety, food defense of food sources and storage
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  activities areas to ensure wholesome food supply for deployed forces.
  Reduce transmission of zoonotic disease threats to deployed forces
  Execute veterinary public ­
  and mitigate the impact of animal diseases of operational importance
  health activities
  to working animals or continental U.S. agricultural systems.