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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health


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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• Why? EU guidelines require the implementation,
  at the national level, of the guidelines and
  objectives defined in the ETPGAH Action Plan
   Mirror Groups .
• How?
• a French initiative, from the Ministry of
  Agriculture, launched in May 2007
• A Steering Committee was nominated and worked on
  the definition of what could be done in France in
  this context
• Series of meetings and teleconferences between
  May and October 2007 to organize a kick-off
  meeting to gather and inform all stakeholders
  (industry, public research organisms, vet
  schools, government, diagnostic labs)

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• Who? Stakeholders covering the whole range of
  animal health professionals
• Ministry of Agriculture (and Fisheries)
• Animal Health Industry, united in SIMV
• French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA)
• National Veterinary Schools (ENV)
• National Institute of Agronomy Research (INRA)
• Agricultural Research Centre for International
  Development (CIRAD)
• Technical Veterinarians Union (SNGTV)
• Sanitary Defence Groups (farmers) (FNGDS)
• Public Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories
  (ADILVA)

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• What for? Objectives
• to create an active and unique forum, putting
  together all actors in animal health, by
  providing a unique network able to connect
  public research institutions missions, AH
  industry needs, and field end-users (vets,
  farmers) needs.
• to provide a solid basis by the presence of
  multifocal expertise of the different
  stakeholders, working on the basis of 3 main
  principles for all topics
• concertation
• cooperation
• coordination
• A specific RFSA Action Plan is in progress, with
  research needs and proposals, resulting in
  coordinated research plans (2009).
• The diseases that will be targeted in the Action
  Plan are not limited to the ETPGAH list of
  diseases, and not limited to livestock diseases
  and zoonosis (France has many requests for
  companion animals and horses)
• Strong link and coordination with state
  authorities

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• Structure of the RFSA Network
• A Steering Committee, representing all the
  members
• A Secretariat, also involved in the drafting of
  the Action Plan
• Different Working Groups (GT) have been set up in
  Dec 07
• GT1 for providing solutions to the immediate
  needs in the field, mainly the availability of
  orphan drugs , diagnostics and vaccines
• GT2 emerging diseases with BTV as a first
  topic due to current epidemiology. The work of
  this GT was used to set priorities in the current
  national research program for BTV-associated
  projects.
• GT3 definition of projects to be proposed by
  RFSA within the context of FP7 projects calls
• GT4 implement the Action Plan (cooperation
  private-public sectors)

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• RFSA achievements so far
• A specific web site (in French) was created and
  hosted by the SIMV partly open to the public
  fully controlled access for members www.rfsa.net
• A Kick-off meeting (October 27th, 2007)
• to raise awareness about the RFSA initiative
• to provide a mapping of all members respective
  expertise,
• to identify research needs and gaps, and suggest
  a list of research priorities
• to propose contractual rules between industry and
  public partners (in the network context)
• attendance up to 100
• Summary conference available on the web site

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• RFSA achievements
• orphan drugs working group GT1
• The group has successfully addressed a wide
  number of topics in 2008
• anthrax vaccine (emergency situation in Jura)
• botulism vaccine
• tuberculin for ID tests
• Products for bee disease treatment
• discussion on autologous vaccines for sheep
• Overall, very positive output. Having all actors
  (regulatory authorities, manufacturers,
  veterinarians and farmers) around the same table
  has definitely helped to define rapid and
  pragmatic solutions.

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• RFSA achievements
• BTV working group GT2
• Concerted list of immediate (operational)
  research needs
• Epidemiology, diagnostic tools, molecular typing,
  BTV status in wildlife
• Consequences on reproduction performances, on
  husbandry practices
• Economical impacts (direct and indirect)
• Vector biology and control measures
• Vaccines (safety and efficacy in minor species)
• Government funded research programs (total of
  1,5 M for Short Term perspectives)
• Longer-term research pathogenesis, immunology,
  etc. to be addressed through the RFSA Action Plan
• Meeting on RFSA initiative for the review of the
  ongoing research projects on BTV (January 21st,
  2009)

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• RFSA achievements
• FP7 working group GT3
• prepare RFSA coordinated inputs for national
  participants to FP7 Programme Committee (link
  with the Action Plan)
• Links with EMIDA ERA NET, Discontools
• Identify groups able to respond to FP7 topics
• identify RFSA coordinated topic priorities and
  needs for future calls, within
• 2.1.1. Enabling research, Main line 2'Omics
  technologies', systems biology and other basic
  sciences in farm animals focus on immune
  functions, genomics of pathogens and vectors.
  Need for basic knowledge on host defence, on
  pathogens.
• 2.1.2. Main line 14 essential biological
  functions of farmed animals focus on functions
  for health and welfare

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• RFSA achievements
• FP7 working group GT3 (continued)
• 2.1.3. Optimized animal health
• Main line 1, Animal health and non food-borne
  zoonoses focus on arthropod-borne diseases,
  including Orbiviruses but not only, extended to
  epidemiology, pathogenesis, biology, ecology and
  control measures of vector populations. Extension
  to tick-borne diseases. Specific focus on
  protozoal infections. Support to Bee health
  topics.
• Main line 2, Food borne zoonoses salmonellosis,
  STEC
• Main line 3, Animal welfare promote links
  between welfare and diseases, epidemiology of
  survey of welfare-based diseases, welfare and
  animal quality products

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• RFSA achievements
• GT4 implement the Action Plan Cooperation
  private-public sectors
• The acces and if possible use for the industry of
  "CLOVIS" Data base (the 4 vet. Schools
  documentation center)
• A commun program for a experimental model
  Arthropod borne diseases (diseases- vector -
  animals)
• Infectiology and immunology of mammary glands
  (mastitis)

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RFSA Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale French
Network for Animal Health

• Plans for the future
• GT1 some problems still have to be resolved
• an annual report could be published
• GT2 reflection paper on emerging diseases
  priorities methodology to anticipate the
  process to react
• GT3 possible cooperation with some other Mirror
  groups
• GT4 concretise PPP cooperation (resolution of
  legal aspects, technical issues)

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Afssa Annual report 2008

•  Applied research, evolving directly from
  problems linked to risk evaluation and the field,
  nourished through the dialogue with animal
  production professionals, of which a nice example
  is the French Network for Animal Health (RFSA). 
• Pascale Briand

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Réseau Français pour la Santé Animale

• http//www.rfsa.net/