This Working Group is evaluating the survival, elimination and degradation characteristics of indicator targets able to model viral behaviour in different environmental matrices.

Leader:

Dr. Christophe Gantzer, University of Nancy, France

Deputy Leader:

Prof. Beata Cuvelier , National Veterinary Research Institute, Poland

Working Group members

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

Dr. Leena Maunula, Helsinki University, Finland

Prof.  Annalaura Carducci, University of Pisa, Italy

Dr. Nigel Cook, Food and Environment Research Agency, United Kingdom

Dr. Mette Myrmel, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Norway

Dr. Georgios Papageorgiou, State General Laboratory, Cyprus

Dr. Tamas Petrovic, Scientific Veterinary Institute `Novi Sad`, Serbia

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

Dr. Juan Carlos Saiz, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agraria (INIA), Spain

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

Mrs. Katarina Kovac,Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyL), Spain

Dr. Marta Hernandez, Spain

Ms. Gloria Sanchez-Moragas, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA) , Spain

Dr. Abidelfatah Nasser, Beit-berl College, Israel