An integrated quality control programme for veterinarians: current status

Several initiatives are being developed by the livestock industry and veter inarians to improve quality. This article describes the term quality contro l. Although action has been taken to improve quality, at the moment there i s no integrated policy of quality control for veterinarians. To date, initi atives have been limited to defining the preconditions for such policies an d little has been done to establish the content of veterinary interventions .