Training for an Army Food Inspection and Veterinary Services specialist begins after nine weeks of Basic Combat training. After boot camp you will progress to individual advanced training, where you will spend an additional nine weeks learning various food inspection methods. As you advance in Food Inspection and Veterinary Specialist program you will be required to train, supervise and assist soldiers more junior in the same career field.
You will spend time both in the field and in the classroom, learning about protection and safety of the food supply, and quality assurance food inspection methods. Some of the skills that you will learn include: inspection of Red meat, poultry, eggs, dairy products, vegetables, fresh fruit, and water foods, how to identify and remedy unsafe and unsanitary food preparation situations, and how to inspect mission and operations rations, such as Heat and Serve, and meals ready to eat. Some of your duties as a Food inspection Veterinary Services Specialist will include assisting in food inspection for human beings, conducting sanitary inspections in commercial
and military food processing and preparation facilities, conducting quality assurance and subsistence inspections in various food handling operations, and collecting, transmitting and preparing samples for the laboratory for food testing. The job skills that you learn as a Food Inspection and Veterinary specialist will allow you to find civilian employment in the FDA, the Department of Agriculture, or other Federal Departments dealing with food safety and inspection. At advanced levels of Food Inspection and Veterinary specialist you will be responsible for the inspection and approval of larger military food preparation and dining facilities. Depending on what area you specialize in you will be able to find a good civilian job as a quality assurance inspector, safety inspector, or other food or vegetable type inspector.
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The job specialty of Food Inspection and Veterinary specialist is a combination job. You deal with inspection and supervision of food intended for human consumption, and also with veterinary service issues. As a member of the Food Inspection and Veterinary Service team, you will inspect food materials that are designed to be eaten by humans, and also inspect facilities and food for veterinary service activities.
I live in the San Diego area; I talked with the Manager of the Deli Dept at my local commissary store at Miramar and was asking her how a new food product can come into the Deli Dept. She told me that the US Army Vet Inspector needs to go out and inspect the factory to get the permission to delivery any food product to the store. I would like to have the phone for the San Diego area, so I could have the information to give to my boss to see if he would like to have his product come into the commissary?
Thanks so much,
Michele