text: Veterinary Services
  SECTION II — FOOD PROTECTION MISSION
  6-5. The food protection mission ensures quality, food safety, and food defense of food sources and food
  storage areas for deployed sources to minimize foodborne illness threats. It encompasses all services
  performed to include:
  * Conducting food protection sanitation audits of commercial food establishments, including
  storage facilities for DOD procurement.
  * Conducting military sanitary inspections at all food establishments on military installations.
  * Conducting contingency CBRN surveillance of potentially contaminated subsistence, as
  directed/required and providing guidance on the disposition of CBRN-contaminated subsistence.
  * Providing CBRN decontamination instructions for subsistence.
  * Conducting surveillance and receipt inspections of operational rations and other government-
  owned subsistence intended for consumption or use by DOD personnel.
  * Providing basic food microbiological and chemical surveillance of the military food supply (to
  include performing rapid, presumptive laboratory testing [screening and surveillance] for
  microbial contaminants, pesticides and toxins, and field confirmatory testing for microbial
  contaminants in the food supply).
  * Providing assessment and guidance on temperature-abused foods.
  * Conducting routine inspections of government food storage facilities.
  * Participating in foreign humanitarian assistance and other stability tasks as directed.
  * Providing food surveillance inspections of dining facilities for security and storage of food
  products.
  * Assisting in foodborne illness investigations.
  * Conducting food and water risk assessments.
  SECTION III — ANIMAL CARE MISSION
  6-6. The animal care mission provides comprehensive medical and surgical care for MWDs and for
  government-owned animals to optimize performance and protect Service members from enemy threats. It
  provides preventive and casualty care as authorized for other animals eligible for United States Army-
  provided veterinary care. The animal care mission is discussed in a similar fashion as are the roles of medical
  care used to describe the successive and increasing capabilities to provide care to our injured and wounded
  Service members. The major difference is there are no veterinary assets in the BCT. The majority of
  veterinary assets in the operational area are assigned to EAB veterinary units and must be projected forward
  to provide care in the brigade area.
  Note. Non-veterinary health care providers should only perform medical or surgical procedures
  consistent with their medical training and necessary to manage problems for working animals that
  immediately threaten life, limb, or eyesight, and to prepare the working dog for evacuation to a
  facility that has a veterinary provider. Non-veterinary health care providers should refer to the
  Joint Trauma System clinical practice guidelines for MWDs
  (http://jts.amedd.army.mil/index.cfm/PI_CPGs/cpgs) and consult with their local military
  veterinary providers.
  6-7. Veterinary treatment in a deployed environment consists of veterinary Roles 1 through 3 veterinary
  treatment support. Treatment is provided by supporting Medical Detachments (Veterinary Service Support)
  on an area support basis. No organic veterinary personnel are located in the BCT.
  6-8. Table 6-2 on page 6-4 discusses the primary tasks and purposes of veterinary services treatment.