News, Eventi e Visite

On 27 February 2014 a delegation of the Thai Ministry of Agriculture, lead by the Director of the General Department of Livestock Development and OIE representative Tritsadee Chaosuancharoen, visited the IZSAM in view of future cooperation programmes.

On the 27th February 2014, the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (IZSAM) is hosting in Teramo a seminar on "Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy”. Registrations are is open until the 24th February.

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.