On 19-23 March 2007, the 1st Research Coordination Meeting of the Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on "The early and rapid diagnosis of transboundary animal diseases such as Avian Influenza" was held in Vienna, Austria. The joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has just started this new CRP, which focuses on the development of sensitive, specific and rapid early detection technologies (using e.g. the polymerase chain reaction) to detect and/or confirm harmful pathogens in animals. See more about the project at http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/aph/crp/d32025-rapid-diagnosis.html; an FAO/IAEA news release about the meeting (in Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

10/04/2007