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Food Microbial Bioinformatician – “ LEGO – LEarning GenOmics for food safety”

ERFAN is pleased to inform you about an initiative coordinated by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise (IZSAM) and titled “LEarning GenOmics for food safety(LEGO)”. The project,funded in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme – Key Action...

Online course organized by the ERFAN Working Group “Animal Welfare” on “Applying OIE animal welfare standards in Africa.”

The ERFAN Working Group on “Animal Welfare” will organize the online course entitled “Applying OIE animal welfare standards in Africa”. The course consists of five online modules and involves approximately 56 hours of learning, including self-study material (asynchronous learning)...

ERFAN Information Days: Online vocational training course “Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia Overview of the disease”

The next week the online vocational training course “Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia Overview of the disease” starts.On 15February, the first live online session is scheduled.  Three other meetings are planned: 22 February, 1 and 8of March. The TC aims to  share  technical-scientific...

ERFAN Information Days: “Detection of Listeria spp. and Listeria monocytogenes, in food matrices, food-producing environments and animals, according to ISO 11920-1:2017”

On 1 February, the first Information Days organised by the ERFAN WG “Food Hygiene” ended. The online sessiontitled "Detection of Listeria spp. and Listeria monocytogenes, in food matrices, food-producing environments and animals, according to ISO 11920-1:2017" had the purpose of deepening topics related to these pathogenic...

Sudan is the new ERFAN partner!

The Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (CVRL) of Khartoum is officially a member of the international network. Actually, 32 Institutions and 17 countries are partners of ERFAN. Thanks to the Director of the CVRL and to the Deputy Director of the...

ERFAN Information Days – Food Hygiene WG – Online on ERFAN Youtube Channel

Online on ERFAN Youtube channel is available the video shot in the IZSAM laboratories and shows the procedure of the detection of Listeria performed by Dr Centorotola and Dr D’Angelantonio. The video is part of ERFAN Information Day - Food...

ERFAN Information days: « Anthrax: aetiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and management »

In the framework of ERFAN Information days, ERFAN Secretariat would like to inform you about the online course titled « Anthrax: aetiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and management » The Information Days aim to provide clinical laboratory scientists with information about the laboratory identification of...

ERFAN Information days: “Project design for international cooperation: Tools and Good Practices”.

In the framework of ERFAN Information days, ERFAN Secretariat would like to inform you about the online course titled “Project design for international cooperation: Tools and Good Practices”. This online course is an opportunity to learn more about how to...

The North African Regional Meeting on the Strategy to Fight on Rabies, organized by the OIE Subregional Office in Tunis

On 10 November 2020, the North African Regional Meeting on the Strategy to Fight on Rabies, organized by the OIE Subregional Office in Tunis, in collaboration with FAO and the European Union, in the framework of the Mediterranean Network...

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità is THE NEW ERFAN PARTNER

With great pleasure, the ERFAN Secretariat would like to announce that the Istituto Superiore di Sanità-Rome (ISS), through the Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, joined the ERFAN Network. The ISS becomes, then, the thirty-first member...