Research
The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) carries out studies and research, surveillance plans and scientific collaboration projects in the fields of zoonosis, animal health, animal welfare and food safety.
Scientific research and collaboration projects are planned and conducted to address the needs of local, national and international organizations, e.g. the Italian Ministry of Health, Italian regional and provincial governments, the European Union (EU), the European Food Safery Authority (EFSA), the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Research lines
Animal health
Diagnostic methods, surveillance systems and epidemiological strategies for diseases of different animal species (poultry, cattle, pigs, rabbits, fish species, bees)
Animal welfare
Identification of breeding systems aimed at improving the quality of life of animals and respecting ethical criteria
Food safety
Risk analysis (management, assessment and communication of food risks); diagnostic methods for the identification of biological and chemical risks in food
IZSVe Projects
Information on the main national and international projects in which the IZSVe is involved, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health or other organizations.
IZSVe Projects »Publications
You can consult the publications and the proceedings published by the researchers of the IZSVe on the Refworks platform.
IZSVe Publications – Refworks Archive »News from the IZSVe on Research & Projects
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Through the INTERREG Italy-Austria “FISH” project, the use of insect-based feed will be piloted, as an alternative way to the products currently used in aquaculture, ...
The focus of most Internet content addressing the relationship between food and health is on nutritional aspects, such as the beneficial properties, or lack of ...
PAIR is a EU-funded project that aims to make radical improvements to point-of-care (POC) diagnostics and epidemiological modeling in the One Health approach through scientific research ...
The research project entitled, One Health approach to understand, predict and prevent viral emergencies from bats (OneBAT), funded in the framework of the HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07 call, ...
Campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis were the most frequently reported zoonotic diseases in humans in the EU in 2022. However, the number of cases was still lower ...
The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza epidemic that occurred between 2021 and 2022in North-Eastern Italy was one of the most serious ever recorded, involving 317 ...