Performance Audit Report on the Control of F MD surveillance reports, the only clinical surveillance that was recorded was the  scheduled surveillance as per the surveillance plans, no clinical surveillance  following a buffalo incursion was recorded. According to the DVS, the main  reason for not always carrying out clinical surveillance subsequent to buffalo  incursions in Zone 2 was due to fact that the Department is overwhelmed with  other competing activities in the district. The Department however stated that  the situation was expected to improve as it continued to relieve itself of none  regulatory functions. Failure to carry out clinical surveillance subsequent to buffalo incursions into  vaccination zones heightened the risk of FMD infection spreading unnoticed in  crushes that possibly had contact with such buffaloes. Such an improper risk  management practice could also result in erosion of the DVS’s hard earned trust  from key trading partners and thus putting the beef industry in jeopardy.  The DVS should:  RECOMMENDATIONS   Ensure that mechanisms are in place to ensure prompt response in terms  of conducting surveillance subsequent to buffalo incursions, so as to  minimise the risk of the FMD infection spreading in other areas and  crushes that may have had contact with such buffaloes.   Expedite the exercise of relieving itself of none regulatory functions to  enhance its response efforts to high risk veterinary cases.  28 |  P a g e