
Meeting of official plant health laboratories network
On 21 June, the annual meeting of the official plant health laboratories network was held. This meeting, attended by 80 people, was co-organised by ANSES, FranceAgriMer and GEVES. The meeting included presentations from the French ministry of Agriculture and Food (DGAL), ANSES, FranceAgriMer and GEVES:
DGAL: instruction DGAL/SAS/2022-160, the impact of EU regulation 2021/1352 on accreditations, progress of the Resytal project, considerations on the frequency of EILs.
ANSES: Evolution of the network of official plant health laboratories and news in bacteriology and virology; Insect vectors of Xylella fastidiosa; news in nematology (new method of identification of Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis; Video resources on the site of the LRUE nematodes)
GEVES: NRL news, new detection method for Clavibacter michiganensis michiganensis on tomatoes, New network to come for the detection of Ditylenchus dipsaci in lucerne.
FranceAgriMer: History of the laboratory and designation as NRL, EILA for the detection of grapevine viruses and methodological work
A presentation on pipette metrology ended the meeting. The next network meeting will be held in 2023 in Angers.