Removal of documents published before 2010: please read the full message for more details.

Dear NRL Colleagues,

We inform you that we are currently working on the EURL-AP website and the intranet.  A new technical update is required for both tools. We will also take benefits of this upgrade to transfer the micrograph collection in a revised user interface on the website. It means that the collection will eventually be openly available… Please inform on due time your national network of laboratories of this change.

We also notify you that we will REMOVE ALL DOCUMENTS (reports, PPT, newsletters, former PT documents,…) being edited or posted before 2010 on both the website and the intranet document library.  Legal texts are not concerned by this clean up. Therefore we invite you to go through the website and the intranet document library to download any document you would like to keep for your team before the 1^st of September 2020.

Of course we will keep archives of all these documents which may always be sent to you on request.

Thank you for considering this message.

Meanwhile we wish you and your team a sunny summer break.

The report related to the EURL-AP collaborative study on the effect of grinding on the detection of bones from PAPs in feed by light microscopy is published. You can download it from the page “Scientific reports” under the menu “Publication”.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the final report related to the Combined microscopy-PCR EURL-AP PT 2015. The report is to download from our website page: http://eurl.craw.eu/en/176/scientific-reports.

With the new batch of pig calibrants now commercially available, you will have to adapt the exact copy numbers to be in accordance with the certificate provided with these new calibrants.

In this “Pig cut-off at 5 copies” Excel file, the cells where you have to introduce the “exact copy numbers” are not locked and this modification is possible.

Do not forget that the figures mentioned in the certificate are copies/µl! In the cut-off Excel file, you have to introduce the number of copies/5 µl!

The calibration kits ERM-AD482 RUMINANT pDNA CALIBRANT and ERM-AD483 PORCINE pDNA CALIBRANT can be ordered from JRC-IRMM. They are now Certified European Reference Materials.

 For ordering and information, go to the following webpages : 

https://crm.irmm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/p/q/erm-ad482+/ERM-AD482-RUMINANT-pDNA-CALIBRANT/ERM-AD482

https://crm.irmm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/p/q/erm-AD483/ERM-AD483-PORCINE-pDNA-CALIBRANT/ERM-AD483

A major revision (V.3.0) of the SOP has been performed and published. The new version shall apply on 18/05/2015. Former version V.2.0 is repealed.

This report is a follow up on the use of the ruminant PCR test that enabled from 1st June 2013 on the reintroduction of non-ruminant processed animal proteins in feed for aquaculture. Due to a certain frequency of rapid alerts with respect to detection of ruminant DNA in aquafeed or feed material intended for aquafeed and the resulting complaints of the industrial sectors related to the activities of production of the by-products or production of aquafeed, it was checked if really the method gives rise to an abnormal rate of false positive results.