Five cases of vesicular disease in pigs identified on farms in England. For more information, find a link here.

The new year started with changes for the Estonian NRL for Listeria monocytogenes. As of 1 January 2023, the Veterinary and Food Laboratory bears a new name – Riigi Laboriuuringute ja Riskihindamise Keskus (LABRIS) or in English the National Centre for Laboratory Research and Risk Assessment. Because of the change, all e-mail addresses have changed (firstname.surname@labris.agri.ee). The address of homepage has also changed to www.labris.ee. At the same time, the old website address will continue to function in parallel for another year, and emails sent to the old addresses will be forwarded automatically.

Au colloque Chlordécone en Guadeloupe pour présenter nos travaux sur l'impact des traitements thermiques (et en particulier les micro-ondes) sur cette molécule: https://lnkd.in/e-BXsYDi

The EURL Team is pleased to launch a call for participation in a rabies diagnostic proficiency test that will be organized in 2023. Registration ends on January 6th 2023 and is restricted to network members who received an invitation. The test will be performed on a unique panel to evaluate the rabies diagnosis conclusion on 10 samples using at least one of the following techniques: FAT (Fluorescent Antibody Test), RTCIT (Rabies Tissue Culture Infection Test), Conventional RT-PCR and Real-Time RT-PCR. The EURL Team would like to thank in advance all laboratories who will register to this proficiency test. 

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        As 2022 comes to an end, let the festivities begin !  The EURL team wishes you the best for the year to come : A year full of health, joy and success, as well as cooperation and scientific discoveries !   See you in 2023 !

The second Reflection Board meeting between representatives of the Reflection Board (RB) organizations (from the EU Platform on Animal Welfare) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, was held remotely via Teams on November, 18th 2022 afternoon. In total 12 participants, seven of them from seven EU platform entities forming the RB, and four from EURCAW-Poultry-SFA were connected. One representative from DG SANTE attended as an observer.   This meeting was the occasion to remind the objectives of the Centre, present the Centre’s activities since the last meeting, discuss future possible work topics for next years, and identify possible future collaboration and interests. Two presentations were given by the Reflection Board.   The topics discussed can be found in the meeting report.  The presentations are available and combined here.  

The third EU-network meeting between representatives of EU Member States (MSs) Competent Authorities (CAs) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, took place in Palma (Spain) on September, 28-29, 2022 for 1,5 days. In total 59 participants, from 19 EU MSs participated, including 26 delegates from CAs, and 14 from EURCAW-Poultry-SFA. One EFTA representative attended as an observer. This meeting was the occasion to present the objectives of the Centre, and the work performed since the last meeting. Furthermore, it permitted to discuss potential future priority areas of work, identify possible collaboration at the national level, and identify the main needs and expectations of CAs. The topics discussed can be found in the meeting report.  The presentations are available here.  

The next 26 to 29 June 2023, will take place the eleven European Symposium on Poultry Welfare in Prague (Czech Republic). 9 sessions are planned:   Welfare – part of poultry production sustainability Welfare assessment (labelling, traceability, precision livestock farming, smart technologies) Main welfare challenges (feather pecking, beak trimming, keel bone, bone strength in broilers) Poultry killing, transport, slaughtering Poultry breeding and welfare, epi-genetics, transgenic, ethics, editing genome Alternative strategies to the killing of day-old male chicks Welfare of day-old chicks, early nutrition and on-farm hatching Poultry behaviour, cognition, enrichment Best practices for poultry housing and management   More information is available on the event website: https://www.espw2023.org/