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Institution
The ‘French Food Safety Agency’ (AFSSA)
was created by a decree from 1999 following the 1998 Law on Food
Safety. It includes the former ‘French National Reference
Veterinary Laboratories’. It is certified by 3 ministries:
Human Health, Consumers and Agriculture.
Seven hundred people are working at the Agency located in 12 different
laboratories all over the country. The main targets of the agency
are to assess all possible risks linked to food issues: farming,
trading and consuming …
Participants
Dr F. Moutou has been trained as a veterinary with
additional degrees in ecology and in epidemiology. He is an internationally
recognized specialist of the wild fauna and its diseases. He is
the elected chair of the French Mammal Society. He has recently
participated in international missions on Food and Mouth Disease
(FMD) and is currently a national expert on TSE and zoonosis (rabies,
tularaemia, leptospirosis …). He made different missions for
the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) on FMD. Since April
2003, he has been working on the SARS animal reservoir at the request
of the OIE and WHO. He already made 2 missions in China to investigate
SARS animal reservoir in June and in August 2003.
Roles in the project
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Expertise in animal epidemiology and zoology
(mammalogy) (WP1),
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Expertise in policy making and implementation
to prevent and control infectious diseases (WP 5 and WP13).
Publications
5 recent publications:
1. F Moutou, B Dufour, AM Hattenberger (2003) – Rapport sur
la rage des Chiroptères en France Métropolitaine.
Afssa, Maisons-Alfort, 70p.
2. G Chapron, F. Moutou (eds) 2002 – L’Etude
et la Conservation des Carnivores. Actes du XXIIIème colloque
francophone de Mammalogie. SFEPM, Paris, 166p.
3. F Moutou, B Dufour, Y Ivanov (2001) –
A qualitative assessment of the risk of introducing foot and mouth
disease into Russia and Europe from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Rev. sci. tech. Off. Int. Epiz., 20 (3) :723-730.
4. M Remond, C Kaiser, F Lebreton, F Moutou, C
Cruciere (2001) – Residual foot-and-mouth disease virus antibodies
in French cattle and sheep six years after the vaccination ban.
Vet. Res., 32 : 81-86.
5. B Toma, B Dufour, M Sasaa, JJ Benet, P Elllis,
F Moutou, A Louza (1996) - Epidémiologie appliquée
à la lutte collective contre les maladies animales transmissibles
majeures. AEEMA, Maisons-Alfort, 551p.(translated in Japanese, 1997
and in English, 1999)
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