Veterinary and Sanitary Inspection
Accreditation. State accreditation. Professional and public accreditation carried out by the Council for Professional Qualifications in Agribusiness.
Awards and achievements. Students, PhD students and teachers are prize-winners of the All-Russian best research paper competition for students, PhD students and young researchers from universities of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia in the Veterinary and Sanitary Inspection category, the International intellectual contest for students, PhD students, doctoral students, and international research and practice conferences for students. They participate in and speak at the International Veterinary Congress.
Teaching staff. The program is delivered by three RAS Academicians, one RAS Corresponding Member, 14 Doctors of Sciences, 64 Candidates of Sciences, laureates of the Government Award in Education and Science, and representatives of the real sector of the economy.
Learning outcomes. Interactive surveys, information and communication technologies, research methods, and gaming technologies.
Facilities and resources. Modular liquid chromatographs, refractometers, rotary evaporators, fiber analyzers, fat extractors, incubators, thermostats, refrigerators, ovoscopes, millivoltmeters, рН meters, a milk quality analyzer, a luminoscope, a trichinelloscope, a viscometric analyzer, Mojonnier centrifuge, and other equipment.
Research. Parasitology (helminthology and arachnoentomology), improvement of technological processes in slaughtering business and meat product manufacturing, prevention of foodborne toxicoinfections and bacterial toxicoses, improvement of slaughtering diagnostics methods for infectious and invasive animal diseases and development of veterinary and sanitary evaluation rules for killing products, search for accelerated and effective meat and meat product research methods.
Competitive advantages. Highly qualified teaching staff; workforce capacity of over 95%; high-quality training in veterinary and sanitary inspection; state-of-the-art equipment such as luminoscopes, portable ionometric analysis devices, ovoscopes, and meat testing equipment. The opportunity to receive practice-oriented training at modern agro-industrial enterprises.
Career prospects and employment. Graduates work in the fields of plant and animal origin product monitoring during transportation, veterinary and sanitary inspection of plant and animal origin products and raw materials and monitoring of compliance with veterinary and sanitary regulations during export and import operations. The employers are the Federal Center for Animal Health, the Central Scientific and Methodological Veterinary Laboratory, and the Moscow Veterinary Association.
