USAV

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federal agency food safety authority government authority veterinary authority

USAV is the German-language abbreviation for Switzerland’s Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, the national authority responsible for food safety, animal health, and animal welfare.

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Label	Occurrences
USAV canonical	1

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	federal agency ⓘ food safety authority ⓘ government authority ⓘ veterinary authority ⓘ
abbreviationFor	Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office ⓘ surface form: Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen
cooperatesWith	European food safety and veterinary bodies ⓘ cantonal food control authorities ⓘ cantonal veterinary offices ⓘ
country	Switzerland ⓘ
fullNameEnglish	Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office ⓘ surface form: Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
fullNameGerman	Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office ⓘ surface form: Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen
goal	ensuring safe food from farm to table ⓘ protection of animals ⓘ protection of consumer health ⓘ
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.blv.admin.ch/ ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Bern ⓘ
jurisdiction	Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation) ⓘ surface form: Swiss Confederation
languageOfAbbreviation	German ⓘ
locatedIn	Canton of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ
parentOrganization	Federal Department of Home Affairs ⓘ
regulates	animal by-products for feed and food use ⓘ foodstuffs placed on the Swiss market ⓘ import and export of animals and animal products ⓘ
responsibility	coordination of official food control ⓘ coordination of veterinary services at federal level ⓘ ensuring animal welfare in Switzerland ⓘ ensuring food safety in Switzerland ⓘ implementing federal legislation on animal diseases ⓘ implementing federal legislation on animal welfare ⓘ implementing federal legislation on foodstuffs ⓘ protecting animal health in Switzerland ⓘ risk assessment in the food chain ⓘ
sector	animal health ⓘ animal welfare ⓘ food safety ⓘ
usesAbbreviation	BLV ⓘ FSVO ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: USAV
Description of subject: USAV is the German-language abbreviation for Switzerland’s Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, the national authority responsible for food safety, animal health, and animal welfare.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office → abbreviation → USAV ⓘ