Session animal health: Preventive veterinary medicine in a changing world: utopia or reality?

Pacheco auditorium

Finance Tower

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Objective

This symposium is organised within the framework of the Belgian EU presidency. The main goal of this symposium is to focus on an ambitious and idealistic perspective of veterinary medicine in the future and on the challenges involved. An important focus lies on alternatives to animal culling during management of epidemics through application of biosecurity and vaccination (especially concerning African Swine Fever and Avian Influenza). Furthermore, recent evolutions and developments in veterinary surveillance such as non-specific diagnostic methods, intelligent use of data and risk profiling will be addressed.

Proceedings (PDF)     

Welcome and introduction to symposium objectives (PDF)

Lieve Herman (ILVO, Chairwoman SciCom)

Presentation 1 Use of biosecurity IT tools: how to be used by authorities & lessons learned(PDF)

Chantal Rettigner (FAVV, CVO België)

Presentation 2 Improving biosecurity at farm and country level through risk based quantification (PDF)

Jeroen Dewulf (UGent)

Presentation 3 African swine fever vaccine: turning a dream into reality (PDF)

Sandra Blome (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut)

Presentation 4 IBR vaccination: current and future challenges (PDF)

Gaëtan De Gryse (Sciensano)

Presentation 5 The role of vaccination in the control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: challenges and perspectives (PDF)

Ian Brown (Pirbright Institute)

Presentation 6 Practical aspects and consequences of vaccination against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (PDF)

Jean-Luc Guerin (ENVT) and Francisca Velkers (Utrecht University)

Presentation 7 New diagnostic methods: to broaden the horizon (PDF)

Hans Nauwynck (UGent)

Presentation 8 Challenges and developments in surveillance of animal health (PDF)

Gerdien Van Schaik (Utrecht University)

Presentation 9 Towards an enhanced clinical decision-making in veterinary medicine (PDF)

Claude Saegerman (ULiège)

Session food safety: Boosting food safety through innovation

Hotel Double Tree

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Objective

This symposium is organised within the framework of the Belgian EU presidency. The main goal of this symposium is to focus on innovation in food production and food safety such as non-targeted diagnostic methods, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data integration. Furthermore, the fairly new topic of ‘food safety culture’ and its role in the creation and maintenance of a safe food environment in food producing companies will be addressed.

Proceedings (PDF)     

Welcome and introduction to symposium objectives (PDF)

Lieve Herman (ILVO, Chairwoman SciCom)

Presentation 1 Opportunities of biosensor and nanopore DNA sequencing for microbiological analyses (PDF) 

Marc Heyndrickx (ILVO)

Presentation 2 Non-targeted chemometric approaches for food and feed quality and safety(PDF)

Juan Antonio Fernandez Pierna (CRA-W)

Presentation 3 Exploring non-technical strategies for enhancing traceability and authenticity of 'new genomic techniques' products (PDF)

Judith Huygens (ILVO)

Presentation 4 Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data integration in agri-food production (PDF)

Christopher Brewster (Maastricht University)

Presentation 5 Food safety culture: the human dimension in food safety (PDF)

Liesbeth Jacxsens (UGent)

Presentation 6 Food safety culture enhancement: intervention implementation in a case study with pre-and post-assessment comparison (PDF)

Pauline Spagnoli (UGent)