Ireland · Veterinary Council of Ireland · licensing · unverified source
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For unrecognised qualifications under Sec 44 of the Veterinary Practice Act 2005. New accreditation standards approved 30 Mar 2026.
Official source: https://www.vci.ie/registration/registration-information-for-veterinary-practitioners
Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.
1. Under EU raw-milk hygiene rules, milk collected daily from the farm must be cooled immediately to:
D. 8 degrees C or below
Regulation (EC) 853/2004 requires 8 degrees C or below for daily collection and 6 degrees C or below if not collected daily. 10 degrees C within four hours is part of the US Pasteurized Milk Ordinance rule.
Livestock Production Management I: General Principles and Ruminants · Clean milk production
2. Under EU pig welfare rules, up to what age may male piglets be castrated without anaesthesia, by means other than tearing of tissue?
C. 7 days of age
Council Directive 2008/120/EC permits castration by means other than tearing of tissues up to 7 days of age; after that it must be done under anaesthetic with prolonged analgesia by a veterinarian. Member states and other countries may set stricter rules.
Livestock Farm Practices · Castration methods
3. Under the EMA AMEG categorisation, which category contains fluoroquinolones, third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and polymyxins?
A. Category B, 'Restrict'
Category B drugs should be used only when no category C or D drug could be clinically effective, based on susceptibility testing wherever possible. Category A drugs are not authorised in veterinary medicine in the EU.
Veterinary Chemotherapy & Antimicrobial Stewardship · Critically important antimicrobials
4. Under EU Regulation (EU) 2019/6, a veterinarian uses, under the cascade, a medicine authorised for cattle with a meat withdrawal period of 10 days to treat a sheep. What is the minimum meat withdrawal period?
C. 15 days
Article 115 sets the withdrawal period for meat at the longest period in the product information multiplied by 1.5 when a product authorised for another food-producing species is used: 10 x 1.5 = 15 days. Keeping the label 10 days ignores the off-label rule; 7 days is a milk default in some cascade rules, not this case; doubling (20 days) is not the rule.
Milk & Meat Hygiene, Food Safety & Public Health · Residues and maximum residue limits
5. A horse grazing in Great Britain in spring shows dysphagia, patchy sweating, muscle tremors and gut stasis with green fluid on nasogastric intubation. What is the most likely diagnosis?
A. Equine grass sickness (equine dysautonomia)
Grass sickness is a dysautonomia of grazing horses mainly in Great Britain and northern Europe, causing dysphagia, gut stasis with reflux, sweating and tremors. Gastric ulcers cause low-grade colic, sand impaction does not cause dysphagia and tremors, and strangles would bring fever and lymph node swelling.
Equine Medicine, Surgery & Practice · Colic
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