It is with great emotion that we learned that Dr Noel Fenech passed away on 12 July 2021. Head of the Department for Health Regulation of the Public Health Laboratory (Valletta, Malta), he has been the Head of the Maltese National Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes since March 2017. All EURL Listeria monocytogenes colleagues present our sincere condolances to his familly and our Maltese colleagues.

In May 2021, the European Commission designated a third EU Reference Centre for animal welfare, focusing on the welfare of ruminants and equines (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/755). The tasks of the third centre (EURCAW Ruminants & Equines) include supporting the European Commission and the Member States in the application of animal welfare requirements for ruminants and equines, carrying out scientific and technical studies, as well as conducting training courses and disseminating research findings and information on technical innovations. EURCAW Ruminants & Equines covers a range of farm animal species including those used for dairy production (cows, goats, sheep, buffaloes), the production of meat by cattle, sheep, goats, deer and horses, and ruminants and equines kept for other purposes.   EURCAW Ruminants & Equines is constituted of a consortium led by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare (Sweden). The centre is also composed of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Austria), the Ellinikos Georgikos Organismos-Dimitra/Veterinary Research Institute (Greece), the National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (France), the University College Dublin (Ireland) and the Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (Italy).   EURCAW-Pigs was the first reference centre, designated by the Commission in March 2018. This was followed by the nomination of EURCAW-Poultry-SFA in October 2019, devoted to the welfare of poultry and other small-farmed animals. 

The next Scientific meeting of the Global Foot and Mouth disease Research Alliance will be held 1 - 3 November 2021 as a virtual edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic : https://www.gfra2021.com/home-site/

Every year, hundreds of millions of male day-old layer chicks are killed after hatching in European Union. Male layer chicks are commercially useless for the eggs industry because they are not suitable for meat production and only females can lay. This unethical practice will be forbidden in France and Germany from 2022, both being the first countries in the world to ban it.    To avoid male day-old chicks culling, hatcheries need to be equipped with machines to determine the gender of birds in the eggs (by detecting feathers' colour for example), males eggs being destroyed before further development and hatching.   France and Germany have also brought this issue to the European Commission. Some Member States (Austria, Luxembourg, Portugal and Ireland) have already shown their support.   More information: German Agriculture Minister Website France Agriculture Minister Website (in french)  

Dr. Julien Parinet nous présentera une introduction à XCMS online pour traiter nos données HRMS   vidéo

Dr. Florian Dubocq nous présentera une introduction à MSDIAL pour traiter nos données HRMS   vidéo

Docteur en chimie analytique spécialisé en analyse non-ciblée, Florian nous rejoint pour 18 mois pour travailler sur les effets des cuissons sur la stabilité des pesticides et cela dans le  cadre d'une CRD entre la DEPR, l'INERIS et le CNRS. Bienvenue Florian!   linkedin Researchgate

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