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 […]