News, Eventi e Visite

Four laboratory technicians from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania have been in the Institute from 17 to 21 Fenruary 2014 to be trained on heavy metals, as part of the activities established in the European CAPS2 project.

From the 18th to the 21st February the IZSAM is organizing in Parma a training course on Animal Welfare during slaughter for the control of animal disease. The course will fall within the framework of the initiative “Better Training for Safer Food” promoted by the DG SANCO of the European Commission.

The Veterinary Operational Centre for Epidemiology, Programming and Information and Risk analysis (COVEPI) of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (IZSAM) and the Ministry of Health published the report "Situazione sanitaria delle popolazioni animali allevate in Italia. Risultati, attività, sorveglianza nazionale" (“Health status of the livestock population raised in Italy. Results, activity, national surveillance”), updated to 2011.

IZSAM, because it is an OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, was invited at the first regional meeting of animal welfare experts for the Western Balkan countries. The meeting was held at Terme Tuhelj on the 27th and 28th of February 2014.

The activity carried out by the working group consists in verifying the presence of environmental contaminants in the ground due to illegal waste disposal through burning or dumping of radioactive and toxic waste. The Ministerial Directive allows the use of the IZSAM’ information system in order to collect data, to carry out the classification procedures and to register the land under inquiry.

A delegation of Veterinary Services of Zambia, consisting of doctors Geoffrey Muuka, A.C. Songolo, Swithine Kabilika, and Christine Yamba Yamba, made a study visit at the IZS dell’Abruzzo e del Molise from 13 to 17 January 2014.

From the 21st to the 24th January, the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” is organizing in Parma the second training on Animal Welfare within the framework of the initiative “Better Training for Safer Food” promoted by the DG SANCO of The European Commission.

Representatives of Veterinary Epidemiology Centres, Universities, Higher Institute for Health and the European Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes have shared the latest acquisitions on Campylobacter and Listeria in the CIFIV of Teramo.