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French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Afssa is a public independent organism contributing through monitoring, alert, research and research instigation to the protection and improvement of public health, animal health and welfare, vegetal and environmental health.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Development and validation of a Trichinella Western Blot for for the certification of pigs from fattening farms
- Development of harmonised schemes for monitoring and reporting of Echinococcus, Trichinella, Cysticercus and Sarcocystis in animals and foodstuffs in the EU (EFSA/Zoonoses/2007/01)
- Harmonisation of methods for the monitoring of VTEC and subtyping of stx2 genes
- Improve tools and strategies for the prevention and control of classical swine fever (CSFV_GoDIVA)
- Integrated control of neglected zoonoses: improving human health and animal production through scientific innovation and public engagement (ICONZ)
- Molecular Risk Assessment of Shiga Toxin producing E. coli (STEC) from food and of attaching and effacing E. coli (AEEC) in regard to their human virulence and as a reservoir of new emerging enterohaemorrhagic E. coli types
- Selection and improving of fit-for-purpose sampling procedures for specific foods and risks (BASELINE)
Contact
French Agency for Food Safety
(AFSSA)
27-31 avenue du Général Leclerc
94701 MAISONS-ALFORT Cedex
France
France
Phone: +33 1 49 77 13 50
