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23/02/2018 —
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Traces of chemical contaminants in food – three questions for Roger Genet

Roger Genet, Director General of ANSES, considers the issue of chemical contaminants in fruit and vegetables, which does not necessarily translate into a risk for the consumer. He explains how the Agency goes about monitoring the presence of pesticide residues in food, assessing the exposure of different population groups and ensuring consumer protection.
23/02/2018 —
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Matthew Schuler appointed Risk Assessment Director of ANSES

On 1 February 2018, Matthew Schuler was appointed Risk Assessment Director of ANSES. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole des Mines, he had been Strategy Director at the French Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) since September 2011. As ANSES's Risk Assessment Director, he will now lead its expert appraisal work and give impetus to the Agency's strategic orientations in risk assessment. He replaces Dominique Gombert, who on 9 October 2017 was appointed chief of staff to Brune Poirson, Secretary of State to Nicolas Hulot, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition.
13/02/2018 —
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ANSES at the 2018 Paris International Agricultural Show: collective expert appraisal devoted to health

Like every year, ANSES will be at the Paris International Agricultural Show (SIA), a key annual event providing the opportunity to meet with its partners and the general public. As an agency responsible for health risk assessment, ANSES participates fully in this event, to promote its work devoted to health and safety. The Agency invites visitors to find out more about its activities in food safety, animal health and welfare, and plant health. The programme for this 55th edition of the International Agricultural Show highlights all the Agency's different missions and includes meetings with professionals, presentations and fun, educational workshops. Please note that all of ANSES's workshops, events and presentations, both on the stand and in the Professionals area, will be held in French.
13/02/2018 —
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Nicolas Eterradossi appointed Director of the Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory

On 5 February 2018, Nicolas Eterradossi was appointed Director of the Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory. Nicolas Eterradossi is a veterinary doctor, holder of a university doctorate in microbiology from the Institut Supérieur des Productions Animales (Higher Institute for Livestock - ENSA Rennes) and of a molecular virology diploma from the Institut Pasteur in Paris. For the past 30 years he has contributed to research at the Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory devoted to animal health, and poultry health in particular, within the CNEVA, AFSSA, and now ANSES.
09/02/2018 —
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Gilles Salvat appointed ANSES Managing Director General for Research and Reference

Gilles Salvat, currently Director for Animal Health and Welfare at ANSES, has since 1 February 2018 also been responsible for the Research and Reference Division. A veterinary doctor, doctor in microbiology, and inspector general for veterinary public health, Gilles Salvat has been working in food safety and animal health and welfare for over thirty years. In his new role he will propose and coordinate the scientific strategy of the Agency's eleven research, reference and health surveillance laboratories. He will also ensure the effective interaction of their work with the scientific expert appraisals. His appointment is recognition of his commitment to safeguarding health.
Pesticides
02/02/2018 —
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ANSES publishes its first phytopharmacovigilance fact sheets

Today, ANSES is publishing the first in a series of fact sheets summarising the data it collects for each active substance under the phytopharmacovigilance scheme it coordinates. The aim of phytopharmacovigilance is to be able to take swift action on a product's marketing authorisation if a harmful effect is observed, in order to prevent its occurrence, for example by amending the product's conditions of use, limiting its uses, or even withdrawing the marketing authorisation. These summarised fact sheets, which contain all the information from the surveillance and vigilance schemes working in partnership with phytopharmacovigilance, are therefore particularly useful to ANSES in the context of the decisions associated with the process of examining marketing authorisation applications for plant protection products, as well as to risk managers, for defining the measures to be put in place if needed.
Vaches
01/02/2018 —
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Launch of the European "One Health" EJP project, coordinated by ANSES

The European Joint Programme (EJP) on "One Health", selected by the European Commission in October, was officially launched this week at a meeting bringing together the project partners, as well as the French Ministries of Health, Agriculture & Food, and Research, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control (ECDC), and the European Commission represented by its Directorate-General for Agriculture, Directorate-General for Health and the Research Executive Agency (REA). This programme, which ANSES is coordinating, is aiming to acquire new knowledge in the areas of foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and emerging risks.
Fièvre Aphteuse
31/01/2018 —
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Foot-and-mouth disease: a new European Union reference mandate for ANSES and CERVA

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) and the Belgian Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CERVA) have jointly been appointed European Union Reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease.This French-Belgian consortium, coordinated by ANSES, was selected following a call for applications issued by the European Commission in May 2017, with a view to replacing the current incumbent, the Pirbright Institute in the United Kingdom. Through this decision, which will take effect on 1 January 2019, the European Union is paying tribute to the commitment of both establishments to animal health, and to the quality of their research work.
Experts
15/01/2018 —
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Health risk assessment: ANSES renews ten of its expert groups

ANSES is today issuing a call for applications in order to renew ten of its independent expert groups in the areas of food, nutrition, animal feed, animal health and welfare, and plant health. Nominations for these groups, open to scientists from a variety of disciplines, must be submitted online before 16 March 2018.

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