6th European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses network meeting
Event
The 6th Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses network (FWD-Net) meeting focused on strengthening EU surveillance and response capacity as well as on hepatitis A as an emerging foodborne disease in the EU.
The meeting was attended by representatives of all EU/EEA countries as well as Candidate and Potential Candidate countries.
Agenda:
| Thursday, 10 April 2014 | |
| 08.30-09.00 | Registration |
| 9:00 (10 min) | Opening and welcome – Johan Giesecke, Johanna Takkinen, ECDC |
| Session 1: Hepatitis A – emerging foodborne disease Chair: Line Vold, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health |
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| 09.10 (20 min) | Nordic hepatitis A outbreak associated with frozen strawberries – Luise Müller, Statens Serum Institute (SSI), Denmark |
| 09.30 (20 min) | Hepatitis A – Outbreak in Italy – Caterina Rizzo, Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS), Italy |
| 09.50 (15 min) | Hepatitis A – Value of sequencing – Harry Vennema, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands |
| 10.05 (10 min) | Hepatitis A – European perspective – Ettore Severi, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden |
| 10.15 (15 min) | Hepatitis A – Trace back of contaminated berries – Jane Richardson, European Food Safety Authority, Italy |
| 10.30 (15 min) | Discussion |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee |
| Session 2: Food- and waterborne outbreaks – from detection to prevention Chair: Marc Struelens, ECDC |
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| 11.15 (30 min) | Identification and characterization of food- and waterborne pathogens by whole genome sequencing: A shift in paradigm – Peter Gerner-Smidt, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US |
| 11:45 (15 min) | Collaborative development of criteria to consider when declaring the end of an enteric illness outbreak - April Hexemer, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) |
| 12.00 (20 min) | Food- and Veterinary Office – audits as tools to ensure food safety – Stefan Hoenig, Food and Veterinary Office (FVO), Ireland |
| 12:20 (10 min) | ECDC-EFSA plan for a joint molecular typing database – Ivo van Walle, ECDC |
| 12.30 (15 min) | Discussion |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Strengthening EU surveillance and response Chair: Ivo van Walle, ECDC |
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| 14:00 (20 min) | Molecular cluster detection and response – Karin Johansson, ECDC EPIS-FWD next generation and EU SOP – Celine Gossner, ECDC |
| 14.20 (20 min) | Surveillance output development – Therese Westrell, ECDC Improving quality of surveillance - Isabelle Devaux, ECDC |
| 14.40–15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.00 (2,5 hrs) | Working group discussion |
| 19.00 | Dinner at Piperska Muren |
| Friday, 11 April 2014 | |
| Session 4: International activities | |
| 09.00 (10 min) | WHO capacity building activities– Hilde Kruse, WHO Euro (VC) |
| 09.10 (10 min) | FWD programme: update on network structure and activities – Johanna Takkinen, ECDC |
| 09.20 (10 min) | Discussion |
| Session 5: Burden of food- and waterborne diseases Chair: Johanna Takkinen, ECDC |
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| 09.30 (20 min) | Seroepidemiology as a tool to estimate force of infection – Kåre Mølbak, SSI, Denmark |
| 09.50 (20 min) | Burden of food- and waterborne diseases – Edoardo Colzani, ECDC |
| 10.10 (20 min) | Discussion |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| Session 6: Feedback from working groups Chair: Taina Niskanen, ECDC |
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| 11.00 (15 min) | Feedback from molecular epidemiology working group |
| 11:15 (15 min) | Feedback from surveillance outputs working group |
| 11.30 (30 min) | Discussion |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 7: Country presentations Chair: Ettore Severi, ECDC |
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| 13:30 (20 min) | Campylobacter and climate – Gordon Nichols, Public Health England, United Kingdom |
| 13.50 (20 min) | Salmonella Derby outbreak among the elderly in Berlin, December 2013/January 2014 - Christina Frank, Robert Koch Institut, Germany |
| 14.10 (20 min) | Salmonella Mikawasima: A seasonal problem investigated in the UK, 2014 - Chris Lane, Public Health England, United Kingdom |
| 14.30 | Closure of the meeting and Coffee |
