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SafeGuard. Work package 4.3 Economic optimization of Monitoring and Surveillance systems

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Risks

This project contributes to the research aim 'Risks'. Which funding institutions are active for this aim? What are the sub-aims? Take a look:
Risks


Project code: keine Angabe
Contract period: 01.01.2008 - 31.12.2013
Purpose of research: Applied research

Within livestock production and processing as well as trade of products from animal origin there exist a large number of monitoring and surveillance systems (MOSS). Also there is a wide variety of applications of these MOSS, e.g. highly contagious diseases (such as Classical Swine Fever and Avian Influenza), zoonoses (such as Salmonelosis and BSE), contaminations (such as PCBs and heavy metals) and early warning or identification of pathogen or contaminant introduction. Each application has its own features with regard to the aim the system is used for, e.g. reduction of the High-Risk Period (contagious livestock diseases), safeguarding products (from contamination) and trend watching (e.g. in some endogenous diseases and zoonoses). Finally, some systems can have different levels of ‘alert’: routine, increased and high alert. In both Nordrhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen, NRW), Lower-Saxony (Niedersachsen, NDS) and The Netherlands (NL), different authorities are involved in monitoring and surveillance. In NL these are predominantly the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA) and the Animal Health Service (GD), and to a lesser extend the Productboards for Meat, Livestock and Eggs (PVE). In Germany particularly the Federal and State Ministries of Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and their respective subordinated agencies such as the Animal Disease Funds (TSK) are involved.

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