Global Biodefense October 1, 2021
The growing concern of countries to prepare against potential agro-terrorism and agro-crime has led to the launch of a joint OIE, FAO and INTERPOL project in 2019 to build resilience against agro-terrorism and agro-crime targeting animal health with the financial support of the Weapons Threat Reduction Programme of Global Affairs Canada. The project will use the FAO Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) and its new Biothreat Detection Module to evaluate beneficiary countries’ capacities to detect criminal or terrorist animal health events. An international team of researchers (Italy, France) describes the development of the new SET Biothreat Detection Module and how it will be used to evaluate surveillance for agro-terrorism and agro-crime animal disease threats. The module will be piloted in early 2021 and, once finalized, will be used by beneficiary countries of the joint OIE-FAO-INTERPOL project. Results from evaluations using SET and Module are expected to provide a baseline from which countries can build targeted capacity for animal disease surveillance including early detection and investigation of potential terrorist or criminal events involving zoonotic and non-zoonotic animal pathogens…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
Example of graphical output of the FAO Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) using figurative results of a fictive country… Credit: One Health Outlook volume 3, Article number: 14 (2021)Â