Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise

Become one of the most demanded professionals of the moment with this complete Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise"

The current social need for professionals specialized in the expertise in legal proceedings requires specific training from an eminently practical perspective, and veterinary medicine is no exception. The current social need for professionals specialized in the expertise in legal proceedings requires specific training from an eminently practical perspective, and veterinary medicine is no exception. The more scientific support a legal decision has, the more justice it will impart. 

This is precisely the reason for the creation of this Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise, in which we count on the collaboration of authors directly related to Judicial Expertise with more than enough professional and teaching experience. Experts from Schools of Legal Practice, Masters of Access to the Legal Profession, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, who have previously taught Judicial Expert Training Courses in the Veterinary field. 

The Postgraduate Certificate will analyze in detail all the questions that may arise for a Veterinary Graduate who intends to enter the world of expertise in Courts. The objective of this training is to take the veterinary professionals through a complete development, enabling them through a solid training to be able to intervene with judgment and responsibility in any legal proceeding to which they may be called. 

Get a complete and adequate qualification in veterinary judicial expertise and open new paths to your professional progress"

This Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise offers you the characteristics of a high-level scientific, teaching and technological program, with some of its most outstanding features: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work 
• Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with 
• internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

With a methodological design that relies on teaching techniques proven for their effectiveness, this Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way we ensure that we deliver the educational update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but above all, they will bring their practical knowledge from their own experience to the program: one of the differential qualities of this training. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-Learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training. 

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice learning: with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

With the experience of professionals from the judiciary, prosecution, law, veterinary and university fields"

This Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise will allow you to acquire all the necessary knowledge in this area of intervention"

The contents of this this Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise have been developed by the different experts of this program, with a clear purpose: to ensure that students acquire each and every one of the skills necessary to become true experts in this field.

This Postgraduate Certificate in Agrifood and Environmental Veterinary Expertise contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market”

Module 1. Veterinary Expert Investigation Agrifood Industry

1.1. Expert Performance in the Veterinary Profession

1.1.1. Veterinary Expertise Performance in Livestock Farms
1.1.2. Veterinary Expertise Performance in the Animal Feed Industry
1.1.3. Veterinary Expertise Performance in Agrifood Industry

1.2. Civil Liability of the Veterinary Profession in Livestock Farming, in the Animal Feed Industry and in the Agrifood Industry

1.2.1. Introduction
1.2.2. Accident Data

1.2.2.1. Sector Data 
1.2.2.2. Activity Data

1.3. Documents of the Expert's Work in the Livestock Farm, in the Animal Feed Industry and in the Agrifood Industry

1.3.1. Report
1.3.2. Certificate
1.3.3. Declaration 
1.3.4. Request for Provision of Funds 
1.3.5. Voluntary Discharge Certificate

1.4. Livestock Farms

1.4.1. Introduction
1.4.2. Risk in the Production Phase

1.5. Claims Investigation

1.5.1. Machinery Claims 
1.5.2. Facility Claims
1.5.3. Livestock Production Claims

1.6. Animal Damage Assessment 

1.6.1. Damage Assessment of Rental Animals 

1.6.1.1. Bovine 
1.6.1.2. Sheep 
1.6.1.3. Goat 
1.6.1.4. Horse 
1.6.1.5. Swine 

1.6.2. Pets Damage Assessment 

1.6.2.1. Dogs. 
1.6.2.2. Cats. 
1.6.2.3. Equine 
1.6.2.4. Other Species 

1.7. Responsibility of Companies Involved in Animal Production

1.7.1. Analysis of Hedges
1.7.2. Policy Guarantees
1.7.3. Operating Civil Liability
1.7.4. Civil Liability of the Product 
1.7.5. Premises Civil Liability 

1.8. Animal Feed Processing

1.8.1. Basic Concepts of Transformation, Processing and Handling of Feedstuffs 
1.8.2. Risks Inherent to the Chain's Processes
1.8.3. Risks Inherent to the Handling of Feedstuffs
1.8.4. Feed Sampling
1.8.5. Chain of Custody

1.9. Animal Feeding 

1.9.1. Adulterated and Contaminated Food 
1.9.2. Legislation on Residues in Food and Feedstuffs 

1.10. Laboratorial Analysis in the Agro-Livestock Industry 

1.10.1. Analytical Techniques of Interest in the Detection of Suspicious Substances 
1.10.2. Interpretation of Analytical Results 
1.10.3. Technical and Methodological Problems of Expert Interest

Module 2. Environmental Veterinary Expertise 

2.1. Environmental Veterinary Regulations 

2.1.1. Introduction 
2.1.2. Regulations on Zoos 
2.1.3. Hunting Regulations 
2.1.4. Fish Farming Regulations 

2.2. Environmental Protection Actions (I) 

2.2.1. Protective Actions in General 
2.2.2. Particularly Actions 

2.2.2.1. Applications for Environmental Authorization 
2.2.2.2. Environmental Communication 

2.3. Environmental Protection Actions (II) 

2.3.1. Livestock Activities 
2.3.2. Aquaculture Activities 
2.3.3. Food Industry 

2.4. Expertise in the Field of Zoological Nucleus 

2.4.1. Inspection and Appraisal of Zoological Nucleus 
2.4.2. The Habitat 
2.4.3. Problems Associated with Captive Breeding 
2.4.4. Expertise on Suitability of Captive Breeding Nucleus 

2.5. Expertise in the Field of Hunting (I) 

2.5.1. Introduction 
2.5.2. Meaning of Technical Plans 
2.5.3. Ecosystems: Alteration due to Anomalies in Hunting Management 
2.5.4. Protected Natural Areas 

2.6. Expertise in the Field of Hunting (II)

2.6.1. Undercover Hunting
2.6.2. Veterinary Report after the Capture or Slaughter of a Hunting Animal 
2.6.3. Environmental Impact of Pests and Diseases in Hunting Wildlife 

2.7. Expertise in the Field of Hunting (III)

2.7.1. Non-hunting Species Slaughter and its Environmental Significance 
2.7.2. Illegal Capture Methods and their Control 
2.7.3. Expertise on Non-compliance with Regulations Related to the Hunting Field 

2.8. Expertise in the Field of Exotic Species (I)

2.8.1. Exotic and Invasive Species 
2.8.2. Species Identification 
2.8.3. CITES Convention 

2.9. Expertise in the Field of Exotic Species (II) 

2.9.1. Expertise Related to the Trade of Exotic Species 
2.9.2. Technical and Police Actions 

2.10. Poisons 

2.10.1. Uses of Poison 
2.10.2. Legal Use of Poison 
2.10.3. Existing Means of Control 
2.10.4. National and European Programs for its Control and Eradication 
2.10.5. Expertise in Case of Poisoning 

A comprehensive teaching program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented towards learning that is compatible with your personal and professional life"