Porcine brucellosis (Brucella suis)

Opinion

Authors

Panel members: Bo Algers, Harry J. Blokhuis, Anette Bøtner, Donald M. Broom, Patrizia Costa, Mariano Domingo, Matthias Greiner, Jörg Hartung, Frank Koenen, Christine Müller-Graf, Raj Mohan, David B. Morton, Albert Osterhaus, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Ron Roberts, Moez Sanaa, Mo Salman, J. Michael Sharp, Philippe Vannier, Martin Wierup.
Acknowledgement: The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) wishes to thank the members of the Working Group for the preparation of this opinion: Matthias Greiner (chair), Mo Salman (Rapporteur), Martin Wierup, Mariano Domingo, José Maria Blasco, Johannes Fiedler, Bruno Garin-Vastuji, Boiko Likov (invited expert), Falk Melzer, Heinrich Neubauer, Julie Ross (invited expert), Mirzet Sabirovic, Krzysztof Szulowsky, Manuela Tittarelli, Yolanda Vaz. The scientific co-ordination for this Scientific Opinion has been undertaken by the EFSA AHAW Panel Scientific Officers Fabrizio De Massis and Per Have. Didier Verloo from the EFSA Assestment Metodology Unit (AMU) collaborated in the meta-analysis. EFSA would like also to thank Kaido Kroon, DG Health and Consumer Protection, Unit D - Animal Health and Standing Committees, Traces Sector, for the collaboration provided for TRACES data used in this Opinion.
Adoption date: 5 June 2009
Published date: 26 June 2009
Question number: EFSA-Q-2008-665