Multinational outbreaks of foodborne pathogens cause considerable threats to European public health. Implementing whole genome sequencing (WGS) in routine kamagra surveillance and outbreak investigations is becoming a strategic goal for many public health authorities all over the world. With this in mind we developed the initiative INNUENDO, which aims to deliver a cross-sectorial framework for the integration of bacterial WGS in routine surveillance and epidemiologic investigations.
Who is involved?
To design an affordable and sustainable diagnostic infrastructure, the INNUENDO consortium includes governmental organisations, authorities and research institutes from the food, veterinary and human sector in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Portugal, Basque Autonomous Community in Spain and Austria (The Team). Allowing kamagra efervescente project stakeholders to assess design choices early on in the development cycle ensures that the planned infrastructure will address the requirement for the integration of WGS in routine analysis in the food chain.
How to maximize food safety?
The potential of widespread, routine use of WGS analysis for public health protection is essentially restricted by the absence of accessible IT framework, and limited skills of public health microbiologists in handling these novel methodologies. The aim of the INNUENDO project is aligned with the European Food kamagra soft Safety Authority mission to promote the development and validation of new approaches in microbial characterization throughout coordinate efforts between all public health and food safety stakeholders.
Standardization and calibration of process and simplification of data analysis and interpretation are the two basic conditions allowing the transition from the current diagnostic paradigm to a full WGS consolidation. Moreover, the lack of accessible informatics infrastructure for data processing and integration is still the major obstacle to implementation of WGS. Thus, it is now essential that advances in bioinformatics and bacterial genomics encounter the needs of the public health microbiology. This goal is reachable super kamagra only throughout an integration of competencies across different disciplines and professions. Therefore, throughout active cooperation between experts in bacterial genomics, evolution, bioinformatics, epidemiology and specialists in validation, food control and public health, the INNUENDO consortium will use a cross-sectorial approach in developing a common framework for maximizing the benefit to use WGS in food safety.
Small countries with limited resources might not be able to succeed in reaching this goal in the near future, putting several EU member states in a condition of inferior capabilities for outbreak detection and investigation. To guarantee the reinforcement of European capacities to ensure protection of citizens against cross border health threats, EU must enable wider access to the new methodologies. An increased level of cooperation between kamagra 100mg the local, national and European competent authorities by dedicated training, development of a common pathogen database and validation of new approaches in microbial characterization is warranted.
The research from the INNUENDO project has received funding from European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), grant agreement GP/EFSA/AFSCO/2015/01/CT2 (New approaches in identifying and characterizing microbial and chemical hazards) and from the Government of the Basque Country
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The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed in this website reflect only the view of the INNUENDO consortium members and not the official position of the European Food Safety Authority nor of the Government of the Basque Country that are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information they contain.
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