Joint seminar by Directorate General for Health and Consumer Affairs (DG SANCO), European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and ECDC.

Hosted by EP Vice-President Dagmar Roth-Behrendt ,“Animal-to-human diseases: How does Europe protect its citizens?” seminar addressed issues such as the human cost of zoonoses, trends in food-borne diseases, challenges and lessons learnt from epidemiological investigations on the 2011 E.coli outbreak and salmonella controls.