Brucellosis Malta to the point of it being referred to as "Maltese fever". Since 2005, due to a strict regimen of certification of milk animals and widespread use of pasteurization, the illness has been eradicated from Malta. Ireland was declared free of brucellosis on 1 July 2009. The disease had troubled the country's farmers and veterinarians for several decades. The Irish government submitted an application to the European Commission, which verified that Ireland had been liberated. Brendan Smith, Ireland's then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, said the elimination of brucellosis was "a landmark in the history of disease eradication
Procedure (term) If a "switch hit" or traffic interruption is 50 ms or less, it is "transparent" to the bit stream carrying the traffic, and is therefore considered "hitless" and non-traffic affecting. Procedure (term) A procedure is a document written to support a "policy directive". A procedure is designed to describe who, what, where, when, and why by means of establishing corporate accountability in support of the implementation of a "policy". The "how" is further documented by each organizational unit in the form of "work instructions" which aims to further support a procedure by providing greater detail. As an example, suppose a