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Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH www.ages.at

AGES – Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety

Health for Humans, Animals and Plants

Research Coordination, Knowledge Transfer, AGES Academy Contact: Dr.Dr. Alois Leidwein [email protected]

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Our Vision

“Health for Humans, Animals and Plants”

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Our Mission

Our Mandate: Protection AGES is THE leading expert organisation for minimising healthcare risks, food safety risks, food security risks and consumer protection risks.

Our Responsibility: Austria AGES is a limited liability company fully-owned by the Republic of Austria, which carries out services based on the Health and Food Safety Act (GESG), special administrative laws and the relevant European directives.

Our Tool: Knowledge AGES works at interdisciplinary levels. Thus, we use bundled, scientifically proven expert knowledge. AGES is a partner in national and international networks.

Our Competence: Comprehensive Solutions The AGES service range encompasses analysis, assessment, monitoring, certification and licensing. We use an approach based on risk assessment principles to maximise healthcare, food safety and consumer protection within AGES’s reach: we assess risks, provide risk communications, give advice on risk management and also conduct risk management in government agencies.

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Areas of Competence

AGES’s major areas of activity

• Agriculture and Food Security • Public Health • Food safety and consumer protection • Animal Health • Medicines and Medical Devices Market Surveillance

collaborate in testing, approving, consulting and conducting research to protect health and ensure food safety. • Overall issues

ο Integrated Risk Assessment ο Radiation Protection ο Research, Knowledge Transfer and Capacity Building

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AGES Structure

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Data, Statistics & Integrative Risk Assessment

Research Coordination, Knowledge Transfer, AGES Academy

Business Area

Department

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1) Austrian Federal Office for Food Safety 2) Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Healthcare

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Locations Food Security*

Veterinary Medicine

Public Health

Austrian Medicine & Medical Devices Agency

Radiation Protection

Data, Statistics & Integrative Risk Assessment

Food Safety

*The department Food Security operates several experimentation stations in addition to its premises in Vienna and Linz.

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What is AGES aiming at?

AGES aims at

• safe food production from the soil to the fork • effective control and prevention of epidemics for

people, animals and plants • providing effective and safe pharmaceutical

products

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Capacity Building within the Food Production Cycle

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Impact orientation of AGES 1. Improve the state of communicable

diseases affecting humans 2. Improve the state of food borne diseases 3. Further development of integrated risk based methods within the cycle

humans – animals – plants - soil 4. Freedom of animal and plant diseases 5. Faultless goods including feeding stuffs and water 6. Safe and effective medicines and medical devices 7. Food security and ensuring competitiveness of agricultural production,

particularly by ensuring faultless agricultural inputs 8. Develop research for being able to perform official tasks and current issues 9. Well informed and economic operators and consumers

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Key Figures

AGES = Mandated Body o AGES = Federal Authority and Limited Company

• Federal Office for Food Safety • Federal Office for Safety in Health Care

o Owner: Republic of Austria • 50% Federal Ministry of Health • 50% Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment

and Water Management o Founded by federal law in 2002 o Merger of 18 formerly independent institutions o Staff: 1.350 o Locations: Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Mödling, Salzburg o approx. 500 000 samples with 4.2 million tests per year o Annual budget: approx. € 110 Mio.

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• Agro-ecology and Biodiversity • Epidemiological models, economic assessment • Apiculture • Faultless Goods and Food Safety • Faultless Water • Nutrition and Consumer protection • Food Security • Research Infrastructures • Food borne diseases and Zoonosis • Method Development and Risk Assessment • Sustainable Plant Production • Radiation Protection • Animal Nutrition and Feedingstuffs • Animal Health • Communicable diseases

Strategic Research Questions

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Business Areas Description

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Business Area Agriculture/Food Security

• Seeds & Potato plant material • Plant varieties • Plant genetic resources • Soil health & Plant nutrition • Plant protection products • Plant health • Feeding stuffs • Apiculture • Specific analytics • Agricultural experimentation • Marketing standards

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Agricultural Reference Laboratories and collections • National Phytosanitary Laboratory • Official Seed Testing Laboratory • Official Testing Laboratory for Potato Varieties • National Seed Bank • National Variety List • National Gene Bank for cereals and legumes

Specific laboratories • Soil Laboratory • Laboratory for feeding stuffs

National Reference Laboratories

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Business Area Food Safety & Consumer Protection

Health - Food Safety – Food Quality

Main tasks • Appraisal of food samples • Generating control plans for food inspection • Expertise for Codex Alimentarius and politics • Consumer goods and cosmetics • Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) • Novel Foods • Analytics and National Reference Laboratories

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• Biochemistry • Pesticide Residues • Veterinary Drugs & Hormones • Hydroanalysis • Chemistry Cluster (PAHs, Vitamins & Biomonitoring,

Mycotoxines) • Radiation Protection & Radiochemistry • Elements (Trace Elements & Heavy Metals, Fertilizer &

Plant Analysis) • Radioecology & Radon

Analytics

Health - Food Safety – Food Quality

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NRL for feed and food • Milk and milk products • Zoonosis (salmonella) • Marine biotoxines • Monitoring the viral and bacteriological containment of bivalve mollusks • Listeria monocytogenes • Staphylococcus • E. Coli • Campylobacter • Parasites (in particular Trichinella, Echinococcus and Anisakis) Antimicrobial resistance • Animal proteins in feedingstuffs • Residues of veterinary medicines and contaminants in food of animal • Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy’s (TSEs) • Additives for use in animal nutrition • Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) • Material intended to come into contact with foodstuffs • Residues of Pesticides • Cereals and feeding stuffs • Food of animal origin and commodities with high fat content • Fruits and vegetables, including commodities with high water and high acid content • Single residue methods • Heavy metals in feed • Heavy metals in food • Mycotoxins • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons • Dioxins and PCBs in feed and food • Water content in poultry meat

National Reference Laboratories (acc. Regulation EC 882/2004)

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Business Area Animal Health

Health - Food Safety – Food Quality

Main tasks • Animal disease control • Zoonosis • High security laboratories • Reference laboratories

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Health, Food Safety

NRL for animal health and live animals • Classical swine fever • African horse sickness • Avian influenza • Newcastle disease • Swine vesicular disease • Fish disease • Bivalve Mollusc Diseases • Rabies • Bluetongue • African swine fever • Foot-and mouth disease • Brucellosis • Equine infectious anaemia • Crustacean diseases • Bovine Tuberculosis • Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs) • Bovine viral diarrhoea

National Reference Laboratories (acc. Regulation EC 882/2004 & OIE)

• Aujeszky’s disease • Psittacosis • Enzootic bovine leucosis • Peste des petits ruminants • Vesicular stomatitis • Lumpy skin disease • Sheep and goat pox • Rift valley fever • Rinderpest • Glanders • Dourine • Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/Infectious pustular

vulvovaginitis • Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, Porcine

Teschovirus • Para–tuberculosis • Swine vesicular disease • Parasites and p. zoonosis

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Business Area Public Health

Health

Main tasks

• Medical Microbiology • Hygiene • Infectious Diseases • Epidemology • Water (bathing, mineral and drinking waters) • National Reference Centres

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Business Area Medicines & Medical Devices Agency

Main tasks • Pharmacovigilance • Official medicines control laboratory • Market authorization & Lifecycle

management • Inspections, medical devices,

haemovigilance • Science & Innovation

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BMG (Federal Ministry of Health)

Regional and local authorities

BMLFUW (Federal Ministry of Agriculture,

Forestry, Environment and Water Management)

BAES (Federal Office for Food Safety )

Food and Feed Safety Authorities in Austria

AGES (Austrian Agency for Health

and Food Safety)

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Federal Office for Food Safety (BAES)

Authority for implementation of following acts: • Seeds Act • Plant propagating materials Act • Plant varieties Act • Plant protection products Act • Plant health Act • Feeding stuff Act • Fertilizers Act • Marketing standards Act

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Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG)

Authority for implementation of following acts: • Austrian Medicines Act • Medicinal Products Import Act • Blood Safety Act • Medical Devices Act • Compulsory Prescription Act • Austrian Tissue Safety Act • Inspections according to the Addictive Drug Act

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International Cooperation

1. Capacity Building

2. Research Projects

3. Agricultural Experimentation

4. Networking

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International Cooperation

1. Capacity Building

ο Twinning

ο Development Cooperation

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Capacity Building Projects

Twinnings

• Bulgaria (BG/2007/IB/AG/06/UE/TWL), Testing, Field Inspection and Seed Control for GMO control of seed and propagating material (2007)

• Czech Republic (CZ/06/IB/AG/08-TL): “Improved Implementation of Acquis in the Area of Food Safety Surveillance (2009) • Slovakia (SK06/IB/HE/01/TL): Improving analyses and risk assessments regarding residue pesticides (2008 - 2009) • Turkey TR 07 IB EN 01, Capacity strengthening and support of implementation of Nitrates Directive in Turkey (in co-

operation with Austrian Environmental Agency –UBA), • Latvia (LV/2006/IB/AG-02TL): Strengthening of the capacity of the Competent Authorities on the application of food hygiene

requirements in the specific sectors of food chain, running (in cooperation with Agrarmarkt Austria -AMA), • Czech Republic (CZ/05/IB/AG/01-TL): The optimization of CISTA control activities in the field of feedingstuffs safety in the

frame of Reg (EC) 882/2004 implementation • Serbia (SR/06/IB/JH/01): Implementation of Integrated Border Management in Serbia (in cooperation with the Austrian

Agency for European Integration and Economic Development - AEI) • Lithuania (LT/2005/IB/AG01): Administration of Import/Export, Market Information System, effective use of Farm

Accountancy Data Network and Organic Agriculture (in cooperation with Agrarmarkt Austria -AMA) • Slovenia (SI/2005/IB/AG/04): Risk assessment methodology and Risk assessment in the food chain regarding

microorganisms (in cooperation with Agrarmarkt Austria -AMA) • Bulgaria (BG/2004/IB/EC/01): Strengthening of the system for health control on trade with chemical substances,

preparations and products and strengthening the capacity for control on the novel foods and novel food ingredients, and for control on the irradiated foods and food ingredients (in co-operation with Austrian Environmental Agency –UBA)

• Cyprus (CY/2003/IB/EN/01/TL): Developing of capabilities for integrated risk assessment of chemicals at State General Laboratory (SGL)* (in co-operation with Austrian Environmental Agency –UBA),

• Slovakia (SK/03/IB/EN/02): Biosafety Monitoring System (AGES in co-operation with Umweltbundesamt – UBA) • Slovenia (SI/2003/IB/EC/02): Further development of chemical safety (Ages in co-operation with Umweltbundesamt - UBA) • Regional Countries (West Balkan): EU-CARDS Regional Programme "Support to and Coordination of Integrated Border

Management Strategies" • Poland: EU-PHARE Project: "Agriculture Information System“

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Capacity Building Projects

Better training for safer food European commission, organisation and implementation of training activities concerning the

evaluation and registration of plant protection products and control of their proper use and marketing

Development Cooperation • Serbia: Integrated Regional Development Plan of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

(agriculture, organic agriculture)

Bilateral Projects • Saudi Arabia: Laboratory training for experts of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (2010-12) • Croatia: Laboratory trainings • Lithuania (2008): Workshop – GMO in feed inspections for Lithuanian officials • Bulgaria – TAIEX (2007): Workshop on phytosanitary inspections at import and transit

Cooperation with international organisations • UNIDO: “Food Safety Infrastructure in Palestine - The way forward” (2010) • UNIDO: Thai national food institute study visit (2010) • IAEA: Bangladesh: Establishing a Veterinary Drug Residue Laboratory

Algeria: Training Laboratory “Antibiotic Residues in Food of Animal Origin” Various countries: "Development of Radiometric and Allied Analytical Methods to

Strengthen National Residue Control Programmes for Antibiotic and Anthelmintic Veterinary Drug Residues" (2009 - 2013)

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International Cooperation

2. Research Projects

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Research - Challenges

• Climate change adaption • Food security • Food safety • Human health • Plant health • Animal health

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Examples of running research projects

National financed projects • Consequences of climate change on ecosystem functions, water

balance, productivity and biodiversity of agricultural soils in the Pannonian area.

• Modelling epidemiological and economic consequences of Grapevine Flavescence dorée phytoplasma to Austrian viticulture under a climate change scenario

• Climate change induced invasion and socio-economic impacts of allergy-inducing plants in Austria

• Food security risks for Austria caused by climate change • Appearance of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera L. in Austria • Actions for bee health promotion – elucidation of unclarified bee losses • Copper as Plant Protection Product – Strategy for a sustainable use • Development of a geo referenced exposure model for the evaluation of Plant

Protection Products regarding ground water contamination risks

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Examples of running research projects

EU financed projects (Framework Programme) • Soil Transformations in European Catchments • European Phytosanitary (Statutory Plant Health)

Research Coordination I • European Research Infrastructure on Highly

Pathogenic Agents • Coordination of European Research on Emerging

and Major Infectious Diseases of Livestock

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International Cooperation

3. Agricultural Experimentation

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Field trials

Technical experimentation greenhouses – quarantine cabins tissue cultures/lysimeter

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Tirol

Vorarlberg Salzburg

Tirol

Kärnten

Burgen- land

Fuchsenbigl

Gleisdorf

Hörzendorf

Schönfeld

. Dt. Jahrndorf

Weiz

Gießhübl

Ritzlhof Jetzing

Taufkirchen

Gumpenstein

Tulbing Pummersdorf/Hofing

Kilb

St. Andrä

Kalsdorf

Kappel

Völkermarkt

Experimentation stations

Fluttendorf

Eltendorf Paurach Hatzendorf

Andau Albrechtsfeld

Frauenkirchen

Nikitsch

St. Andrä

Tadten

Absdorf

Ebergassing

Gaisruck

Gerhaus/Pachfurth /

Nickelsdorf

Mallon

Melk

Neuaigen

Pottendorf

Pultendorf/Prinzersdorf Phyra

Dietach

Mitterbachham

Naarn

Niederabsdorf

Blaustauden

Eichhorn

Hohenau

Trials in test stations Field trials

Enns

Wartberg

Alkoven Breitbrunn

Bierbaum Stang

Eichfeld Strass

Weinberg

Wieselburg

Staasdorf Tulln

Wolfpassing Weikendorf

Fraham

Weißkirchen

Authal Kobenz

Söding

St. Georgen

Unterwölbling

Unterwaltersdorf/Schranawand

Winklhof

Petzenkirchen

Rossa Ramsau Wurmbrand

Pehendorf

Zinsenhof

Reidling Zissersdorf

Rutzendorf Breitstetten Haringsee

Stammersdorf

Linz

Freistadt Großnondorf

AGES Wien

Grabenegg

Experimentation stations • Weinviertel • Marchfeld • NÖ und OÖ Alpenvorland • SO- Flach- und Hügelland • Kärntner Becken • Wald- und Mühlviertel

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Lysimeter Research facility for soils

Sandy chernozem Teep chernozem Moisty Black Soil

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Lysimeter – Status quo

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Lysimeter – measuring systems

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AGES Services

AGES Academy Training, further training and information events Contact: [email protected] Product Warnings Information on product recalls and product warnings per email or RSS feed (Subscription: www.ages.at) Folders & Brochures Special information & consumer tips (to order or download: www.ages.at) AGES Newsletter Special information & consumer tips per email (Subscription: www.ages.at) AGES in Social Networks


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