Sample Reception and Quality Control
The Sample Reception and Quality Control Unit manages relationships with clients and the public, ensuring the provision of the Institute's diagnostic services in compliance with quality standards. The Unit is responsible for verifying incoming samples for analytical activities, recording them, forwarding them to the designated laboratories, and preparing test reports with the analytical results obtained.
The Sample Reception and Quality Control Unit manages relationships with clients and the public, ensuring the delivery of services in compliance with quality standards. It oversees the verification of samples submitted for analytical activities, records the accompanying data accurately, distributes the samples to the relevant laboratories, and prepares the reports with the results obtained.
The unit ensures the correct handling of official samples of food or other materials collected by designated control authorities, including suspected narcotic substances.
It defines and monitors operational procedures for the interface between the Laboratory Information System (SILAB) and national information systems, feeding them with data relevant to epidemiological investigations. Additionally, the unit provides training in its areas of expertise.
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Paolo Calistri
Head
Paolo Calistri has been working at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise since 1995, where he currently serves as Head of the Epidemiology Laboratory and of the National Reference Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology, Planning, Information and Risk Analysis (COVEPI). He is also interim Head of both the Epidemiology, Risk Analysis and Information Unit and the Sample Reception and Quality Control Unit.
Paolo Calistri has been working at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise since 1995, where he currently serves as Head of the Epidemiology Laboratory and of the National Reference Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology, Planning, Information and Risk Analysis (COVEPI). He is also interim Head of both the Epidemiology, Risk Analysis and Information Unit and the Sample Reception and Quality Control Unit.
Since September 2018, he has been Head of the FAO Reference Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology, and since March 2021, he has also been Head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology, Modelling and Surveillance.
From 2015 to 2024, he served as a member of the Animal Health and Animal Welfare (AHAW) Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Paolo Calistri has taken part in numerous international research projects and initiatives focused on the prevention and control of animal diseases and zoonoses.
He is the author of over 130 scientific articles published in international journals.
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Titolo 1
Cresci M., Di Sabatino D., Barbuceanu F., Tamba P., Motiu R., Motiu M., Manita F., Vincifori G., Ciarrocchi E., Bonfini B., Portanti O., Lorusso A., Hristescu D., Calistri P.
Lumpy Skin Disease
Di Giuseppe A., Zenobio V., Dall’Acqua F., Di Sabatino D., Calistri P.
Assessing the Adoption of One Health Approaches in National Plans to Combat Health Threats: The Pilot of a One Health Conceptual Framework in Armenia
Milano A., Robbiati C., Declich S., Calistri P., Pediconi O., Amato L., Paronyan L., Avetisyan L., Manucharyan A., Avetisyan G., Yesayan T., Gevorgyan A., Markosyan T., Dente M.G.
Severe Streptococcus equi Subspecies zooepidemicus Outbreak from Unpasteurized Dairy Product Consumption, Italy
Bosica S., Chiaverini A., De Angelis M.E., Petrini A., Averaimo D., Martino M., Rulli M., Saletti M.A., Cantelmi M.C., Ruggeri F., Lodi F., Calistri P., Cito F., Cammà C., Di Domenico M., Rinaldi A., Fazii P., Cedrone F., Di Martino G., Accorsi P., Morelli D., De Luca N., Pomilio F., Parruti G., Savini G.
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