Independent Study - iMOVES & FB: Food Safety, Public Health and Animal Welfare

Students will attend a Summer School program at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Padua, in Italy. The course examines critical issues related to food safety, public health, and animal welfare on a global scale in an interdisciplinary environment. The class is, in fact, composed of veterinary students and graduate students in food biotechnology, animal welfare, and behavior coming from Italian and US colleges (University of Padua, Texas A&M University, Kansas State University, Colorado State University, and University of Pennsylvania). The program includes lectures and laboratories on transatlantic food trade, safe and sustainable global food trade, seafood trade and seafood- related illnesses, screening of residues in animal products, animal welfare in laboratory animals and related legislation, farm-animal welfare and related legislation, companion animal welfare and related legislation, animal welfare in marine mammals and zoo animals and its intersection with tourism, monitoring and control of parasitic diseases in terrestrial and aquatic wild animals. 3 Credit Hours