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About CRL
  Legal basis
  CRL-Salmonella was established in 1992 according to the EU Directive 92/117/EC. The Directive concerned measures for protection against specified zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals and products of animal origin so as to prevent outbreaks of food-borne infections and intoxications. In 2003, this Directive was replaced by Directive 2003/99/EC on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents and by Regulation (EC) 2160/2003 on the control of Salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents. Since 2006, Regulation (EC) 882/2004 has formed the legal basis for the CRL. This latter regulation concerns 'the official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules'.
  Tasks and activities
  The major tasks of the CRL-Salmonella are to harmonise methods for the detection and typing of Salmonella and to evaluate the performance of the National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) for Salmonella in detecting and typing of Salmonella.
  Activities
 
  • Organisation of annual interlaboratory comparison studies among the National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) for Salmonella on the bacteriological detection of Salmonella in the presence of competitive microorganisms;
  • Organisation of annual interlaboratory comparison studies on serotyping and phagetyping of Salmonella spp. among the NRLs-Salmonella and EnterNet Laboratories (ENLs);
  • Organisation of an annual workshop;
  • Development and standardisation of methods and reference materials for comparison studies;
  • Carrying out of research related to the tasks of the CRL;
  • Supplying of scientific and technical support to the Commission (DG-Sanco) and the NRLs-Salmonella.   
  Contact persons CRL
 
Drs. Kirsten A. MooijmanHead CRL-Salmonella 
Tel: +31 30 274 3537Kirsten.Mooijman@rivm.nl
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Hennie ter HoevenWebsite manager
Tel: +31 30 274 7015

Hennie.ter.Hoeven@rivm.nl

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Ing. Angelina KuijpersResearch Assistant
Tel: +31 30 274 2093Angelina.Kuijpers@rivm.nl
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Laboratory for Zoonoses and EnvironmentalP.O. Box 1
Microbiology (LZO)3720 BA Bilthoven 
National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentThe Netherlands 
                                                                               Fax: +31 30 274 4434 
  Contact person at the European Commission
 
Klaus KostenzerTel +32 22 98 4335
klaus.kostenzer@ec.europa.euFax +32 22 96 90 62
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European CommissionRue Belliard 232 4/1
Directorate-General for Health and Consumer AffairsB-1049 Brussels
(DG-Sanco)               Belgium
 
Laatste wijziging: 5 juli 2011