State Veterinary Service
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The State Veterinary Service(SVS) is an executive agency of the UK government department the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It is the government's delivery agent responsible for animal health and welfare in England, Scotland and Wales.
It delivers government policies to farmers and keepers of livestock to help ensure that kept animals are healthy, disease-free and well looked after. Working with partner organisations, it also helps prevent anything harmful entering the human food chain.
It was set up in 1865 in response to an outbreak of rinderpest in London.
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