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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT The Department of Hygiene and Disease Prevention in Animal Breeding, affiliated with the Department of Epizootiology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Agriculture and Technology in Olsztyn, was created in October 1980. Its founding director was Professor Franciszek Przała. Ewa Skorska-Wyszyńska, DVM, Maciej Gajęcki, DVM, and Anna Piękos, VT, joined the department's academic staff in December 1980 and in the first quarter of 1981. New faculty members were employed in successive years, including Elżbieta Zduńczyk, DVM, and Tadeusz Bakuła, DVM, in 1982-1986, Mirosław Baranowski, DVM, in 1994, Kazimierz Obremski, DVM, in 1995, Łukasz Zielonka, DVM, in 1996, Magdalena Gajęcka, DVM PhD., in 2006, and Ewa Jakimiuk, DVM PhD., in 2008. In 1992, the department was renamed to the Department of Veterinary Prevention and Feed Hygiene. Professor Maciej Gajęcki has been heading the department since 1997. In 2003, the name of the department was changed to the Veterinary Prevention and Feed Hygiene Unit which was part of the Department of Veterinary Public Health Protection of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. In 2000-2005, a Toxicology Laboratory and an Alternative Research Laboratory were launched in the unit. In January 2009, the unit was once again renamed to the Department of Veterinary Prevention and Feed Hygiene.