Launch of PATH-SAFE webinar
06 September 2021
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the PATH-SAFE webinar, taking place on Monday 4 October.
You can sign up on the event page to receive updates and login details to access the webinar, which will be taking place using Zoom.
The webinar will bring together stakeholders from the foodborne pathogens, antimicrobial resistant (AMR) microbes and food-chain sectors. This webinar will reflect a ‘One Health’ approach, recognising that health, food and the environment are all linked and that AMR in the environment can have profound implications for other sectors. There will also be an opportunity to find out more about the project from the different stakeholders involved.
This webinar is part of a new cross-government project to track foodborne pathogens. This £19 million project brings together the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Standards Scotland (FSS), the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Public Health England (PHE) and the Environment Agency to test the application of genomic technologies in the surveillance of foodborne pathogens and AMR microbes in all four nations of the UK.
Professor Rick Mumford, Deputy Director of Science & Head of Science for the FSA said:
“In the PATH-SAFE project, we are tackling the dual challenges of AMR and foodborne disease. Annually, in the UK, foodborne pathogens are estimated to cause 2.4 million cases of foodborne illness and have a societal burden of over £9 billion. In this new cross-government project, we will build tools and generate new data to help better track and understand the spread of pathogens and resistant microbes, across the agri-food-environment system and taking a One Health approach.”
If you have any questions or would like to request more information, please contact [email protected].
Further information will be announced in the build up to the meeting. Keep up to date on our social media by following us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter @MicrobioSoc using the hashtag #PATHSAFE21.
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