The European Commission has just selected a new project aimed at enabling significant progress in the field of foodborne zoonoses. These are infections, or diseases, that can be transmitted between animals and humans, for example through the consumption of contaminated meat or through contact with infected animals. The European Joint Program (EJP) “One Health” for “one health”, will be coordinated by ANSES (National Food Safety and Health Agency) and will start on 1 January 2018. It brings together more than 40 partners from 19 Member States and will make it possible to acquire new knowledge in the fields of zoonosis, antibiotic resistance and emerging risks. Its total amount of 90 million euros will be 50% financed by the European Commission.
Advancing research and disseminating results
“One Health” recognizes that human health is closely linked to that of animals and the environment. In these health and socio-economic issues, this program is particularly well suited to combat the emergence of antibiotic resistance. Used in abundance in livestock farming or aquaculture, to fight diseases, increase productivity or prevent contamination of the food chain, antibiotics participate in the development of microbial strains on which these drugs no longer have any effect. At the end of 2016, the United Nations declared that the emergence of antibiotic resistance had “become one of the main threats to global health and jeopardizes other major priorities, such as human development. »
This new research community forming a network organized by ANSES and whose French partners are Inra, the Institut Pasteur and Public Health France, will generate scientific data intended to feed the analysis health risks and their evaluation by national and European agencies. One of the priorities of the network will be to ensure the proper dissemination of information within the scientific community.
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