News

Mission in Azerbaijan

As part of its WOAH and FAO mandates, the EURL for FMD took part in the...
News

EuFMD June 2024 Webinar

On June 11, 2024, the EURL for FMD organized a webinar with EuFMD on the...
News

Hosting the Polish delegation april 2024

On Monday May 27, 2024, the Animal Health Laboratory and the JRU Virology/...
News

Training LRUE March 2024

As part of the EURL for FMD work program, the BIOPIC team welcomed four...

Welcome to the website of the European Union Reference Laboratory for Foot and Mouth disease

The European Council and the Commission have designated European Union Reference Laboratories (EURLs) with scientific and technical expertise within the areas of animal health, public health and zootechnics in a number of legal acts to prevent, control and eradicate major animal diseases.

The consortium between ANSES (France) and Sciensano (Belgium) is appointed as European Union Reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease (COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/136 of 25 January 2018)