This Working Group is gathering information and knowledge on identification of environmental viruses and the implications of their presence for public health, and formulating systems to acquire optimal information from data on the prevalence of viruses in foodstuffs and environmental matrices.

Leader:

Dr. Ana Maria de Roda Husman, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands

Working Group members

Dr. Carl-Henrik von Bonsdorff, Helsinki University, Finland

Prof.  Annalaura Carducci, University of Pisa, Italy

Dr. Laurids Siig Christensen, Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Denmark

Dr. Ivan Pšikal National Veterinary Institute (NVI) Czech Republic

Dr. Nigel Cook, Central Science Laboratory, United Kingdom

Dr. David Rodríguez-Lázaro, Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyL), Spain

Dr. Marta Hernandez, Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyL), Spain

Dr. Christophe Gantzer, University of Nancy, France

Dr. Wim van der Poel, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Dr. Apostolos Vantarakis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Dr. Abidelfatah Nasser, Beit-berl College, Israel