One Health surveillance-A cross-sectoral detection, characterization, and notification of foodborne pathogens.

Several Proficiency Test (PT) or External Quality Assessment (EQA) schemes are currently available for assessing the ability of laboratories to detect and characterize enteropathogenic bacteria, but they are usually targeting one sector, covering either public health, food safety or animal health. In addition to sector-specific PTs/EQAs for detection, cross-sectoral panels would be useful for assessment of the capacity to detect and characterize foodborne pathogens in a One Health (OH) perspective and further improving food safety and interpretation of cross-sectoral surveillance data. The aims of the study were to assess the cross-sectoral capability of European public health, animal health and food safety laboratories to detect, characterize and notify findings of the foodborne pathogens A total of 15 laboratories from animal health, public health and food safety sectors were enrolled in eight countries: Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The laboratories analyzed the samples according to the methods used in the laboratory and reported the target organisms at species level, and if applicable, serovar for All 15 laboratories analyzed the samples for The results of the pilot PT/EQA conducted in this study confirmed the possibility to apply a cross-sectoral approach for assessment of the joint OH capacity to detect and characterize foodborne pathogens.

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Copyright © 2023 Tast Lahti, Karamehmedovic, Riedel, Blom, Boel, Delibato, Denis, van Essen-Zandbergen, Garcia-Fernandez, Hendriksen, Heydecke, van Hoek, Huby, Kwit, Lucarelli, Lundin, Michelacci, Owczarek, Ring, Sejer Kjeldgaard, Sjögren, Skóra, Torpdahl, Ugarte-Ruiz, Veldman, Ventola, Zajac and Jernberg.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.