Within the European Union, academic professions themselves are expected to
reach a comparable level of professionalism, a fact that veterinary medicin
e as well should not ignore. At present, a working group is developing a co
ncept of a teaching module for the Socrates programme "Education in Veterin
ary Public Health (VPH)", enabling the students by "case studies" to be ind
uced to an integrated approach of tackling problems. In an attempt to demon
strate the didactic procedure, a study of ostrich meat as food for human co
nsumption is presented as a concrete example, In the detailed teacher's gui
de, informations are given about ostrich husbandry, slaughter procedure and
meat inspection, as well as detailed explanations how the health of human
consumer can be safeguarded by the introduction of the HACCP system.