"Investments in preventive measures aimed at limiting the consequences of probable natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events for the needs of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency"

The current project under sub-measure 5.1 "Support for investments in preventive measures aimed at mitigating the consequences of probable natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events" of measure 5 of the RDP includes as main activity the supply of specialized laboratory equipment for the 7 laboratories. BFSA. The laboratories carry out research, scientific-applied, reference, diagnostic, preventive and expert activities in the field of animal health, food and feed safety. Ensuring laboratory capacity is at the heart of the fight against communicable diseases, with a view to early and accurate diagnosis and adequate control and monitoring. The implementation of the project will ensure an increase in the level of preventive measures through support aimed at laboratory-diagnostic and research activities, and will increase the capacity of laboratories directly related to the prevention and prevention of epizootics, their control, including by reducing the time for reaction from the competent authorities. In recent years, Bulgaria has faced a number of particularly dangerous infectious diseases such as bluetongue epizootics (2014), contagious nodular dermatitis (2016), avian influenza (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019), smallpox ruminants (2018) and ASF (2018 and 2019) and EU-compliant laboratory capacity should be maintained for the timely diagnosis of the disease and subsequent surveillance for eradication of outbreaks. The implementation of the project will contribute to accurate diagnosis and implementation of prevention and control measures. The consequences of the emergence, spread and eradication of infectious animal diseases will be limited.

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