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Nicolay Vlasov, Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Professor, made a short working visit to the Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” branch in the Republic of Crimea. During the visit Nicolay Vlasov familiarized himself with the work of the Laboratory for Food Safety, inspected the third and fourth floors of the laboratory administrative building, where installation of clean rooms (medical climate modules) is nearly completed, discussed the work of the branch and its further perspectives.

8643 tests of livestock sera were performed in the Reference Laboratory for FMD Diagnosis of the Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” from January 18 to February 8, 2016. The tests were carried out within the framework of the Rosselkhoznadzor’s activities in the area of serological surveillance aimed at compliance with “WTO SPS Agreement on Russia’s WTO Accession for 2016”. Samples were collected from FMD vaccinated animals in a number of regions and from non-vaccinated animals in the surveillance zone.

238 samples of plant and animal origin products and raw materials were submitted for testing to the Laboratory for Chemical Analysis of the Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” Testing Centre during the period from the 28^th of January to the 11^th of February, 2016.

According to the OIE data 421 outbreaks of highly dangerous animal diseases were reported in the world from February 1to February 29, 2016.

In Russia in February 2016 African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks were registered in:

According to the OIE data 113 outbreaks of highly dangerous animal diseases were reported in the world from February 6 to February 12, 2016.

In Russia over the past week African swine fever (ASF) outbreak was registered in Penza, the Penza Oblast.

ASF outbreaks were also reported in Latvia (7), Ukraine (1) and Estonia (38).

In accordance with “Programme of cooperation between the Rosselkhoznadzor laboratories” in the framework of the implementation and development of  project “Identification of geographical origin of livestock and poultry meat” the measurement methods “Isotopic determination of carbon and nitrogen in muscular tissues of animals and poultry using isotope ratio mass spectrometry” developed by the staff members of the Laboratory for Chemical Analysis of the Testing Centre of the FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” subordinate to the Rosselkhoznadzor was appro

In January 2016 a number of serological and molecular-biological tests for the infectious disease agent spread was carried out by the staff members of the Reference Laboratory for Bovine Diseases of the FGBI “ARRIAH” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor.

1665 serum samples obtained from cattle of different age and sex in different RF regions were tested using ELISA.