title: [Contamination of fodder and corresponding alimentary policy regulations].
abstract: In the mid sixties a medical work group developed a prophalactic programme for children which provided for repeated checkups to detect particularly those defects which are likely to seriously jeopardise the physical and mental development of the child. For the selection of the checkup dates that age of the child was decisivie in which it was possible to inspect certain functional events. Since such examination programmes had to cover an entire class, a prerequisite to be met was to choose an as large a number of examiners as possible. This meant the prescription of methods of examination which were applicable to any private or paediatric practice. In view of the fact that the child's health is subject to quick changes it can never be the objective of such programmes to establish acute syndromes and detailed examination findings but to restrict prophylaxis to a selection of important diseases. Thus the medical objective remains limited to readily recognizable disturbances which undetected could severely interfere with the development of the child. It is also decisive for the extent of thew examination that it isrestricted to the search for such developmental disturbances as can be remedied effectively...
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D005506:Food Contamination; D005860:Germany, West; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D009183:Mycotoxins; D010575:Pesticides
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D009183:Mycotoxins; D010575:Pesticides
vernacular_title: Uber Kontaminationen von Futtermitteln und entsprechende Regelungen aus ernährungspolitischer Sicht