COST Action EURO-FBP (FA1408) promotes collaboration between scientists working on foodborne parasites in Europe.

The goal of COST Action EURO-FBP (FA1408) is to decrease the impact on human health from foodborne parasites (FBP), through establishing a risk-based control programme for FBP containing robust and appropriate protective strategies.

Ongoing EURO-FBP activities

​Update from the EURO-FBP Training school in Riga
The 2018 EURO-FBP TS (17-20 Sept) has now started. 20 trainees and 5 trainers (see photo) are now in place at the Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia.

This training school is aimed at teaching optimization and troubleshooting of methods used to extract, amplify, and sequence nucleic acids from contaminated matrices and isolated foodborne parasites.

Upcoming events

STSM:  APPLICATIONS FOR STSM ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED.... THIS IS THE LAST YEAR UNDER THE AUSPICES OF EURO-FBP, SO DON'T DELAY!


SAVE THE DATE........
FINAL EURO-FBP MEETING.
"EURO-FBP: WHAT NEXT?"
WHERE: Oeiras, Portugal
WHEN: 12-14th FEBRUARY 2019

More details, including draft programme, coming soon!!


The work and budget plan (WBP) for GY4 is now available (see under resources).


TRAINING SCHOOL: The 2018 Euro-FBP TS (17-20 Sept) is now being prepared. 
Wishing all trainees and trainers, and their host, a fun, useful, and rewarding time in Riga

WG1 MEETING: The next WG1 workshop will be held in Belgrade (19-20 November) for those involved with completion of Subtask 1.3 - proactive surveillance. Further information will be available shortly.

Previous EURO-FBP activities

​EURO-FBP  WG2 workshop meeting
“Guideline development with emphasis on validation, standardisation, and QC”​
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The main aims of the meeting were to synthesise the information gathered on methods for the detection of the priority parasites and identify a way forward for the development of the validation guideline.

Venue: COST HQ, Brussels, Belgium
Date: July 2018
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EURO-FBP  WG4 workshop meeting
“Systematic Reviews”

The main aim of this meeting was to identify a way forward for the searches, extractions, and syntheses, and to agree on a structure for the systematic reviews associated with WG4.

Venue: COST HQ, Brussels, Belgium
Date: April 2018

EURO-FBP WG1 and WG4 meeting
“Social cost benefit analyses for foodborne parasitic diseases”

The aim of this workshop was to look at approaches for further analysis of intervention strategies for prioritised foodborne parasites in Europe using new cost-benefit tools.

Venue: RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Date: January 2018

EURO-FBP WG3 meeting
“Advance the 2 inactivation papers on foodborne parasites as well as a paper on methods to evaluate viability/inactivation”

EURO-FBP ECI meeting
"Career development and writing research proposals"

Lisbon, Portugal
14th – 15th November 2017

For more info click here

EURO-FBP Training School:

"​Molecular Methods used for Foodborne Parasite Diagnostics in Different Matrices"

Date: 4-7 September 2017
Venue: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

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EURO-FBP meeting

"Outbreaks and outbreak investigations"


Rome, Italy
23rd – 24th May 2017

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Credit photo: www.latvia.travel/en

EURO-FBP WG2 meeting

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​Riga, Latvia, 23rd-24th January 2017

For more info click here.

EURO-FBP WG3 workshop

"Review of the effectiveness of potential measures to control foodborne parasites"

​Lisbon, Portugal
2-3rd November 2016

Participants from working group 3 got together to work on an upcoming EURO-FBP review on measures to control FBPs.
Organisation of Meeting: WG3 (WG leader – Cedric Gerard)
Local organisers: Ricardo Santos
Meeting venue: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon
For more info click here.

Euro-FBP Meeting

"Analytical Methods on Foodborne Parasites: analysis of food matrices and diagnostics in human medical and veterinary samples"

Ljubljana, Slovenia 26-28th September 2016

Meeting title: Analytical Methods on Foodborne Parasites: analysis of food matrices and diagnostics in human medical and veterinary samples
This EURO-FBP meeting was a co-located meeting with COST Action TD1302 Cystinet on Day 3.
Organisation of Meeting: WG2 (WG leader – Christian Klotz)
Local organisers: Miha Skvarč and Barbara Šoba
For more info click here.

Euro-FBP WG2 Meeting

"Crypto Sub-typing"
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​Berlin, Germany
​16-17th June 2016

Euro-FBP Meeting

"Risk-ranking of foodborne parasites in Europe”


Bilthoven, February 8-12 2016.

Meeting title “
WG1 meeting & 3rd Management Committee meeting
Venue: RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands.
Local organiser: Joke van der Giessen
Information about the meeting can be found here.

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