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Cost action feed for health a scientific hub Luciano Pinotti* Department of Veterinary Sciences and Technology for Food Safety, Università di Milano, Italy *Feed for health Action Chair luciano.pinotti@unimi.it The main aim of the project is to develop an integrated and collaborative network of research groups that focuses on the roles of feed and animal nutrition in improving animal health and also the quality, safety and wholesomeness of human foods of animal origin. A further topic of the action is to examine the perception of consumers as regards the effects of animal nutrition on animal health and on the quality and safety of the resulting food products. The main success of the project was to start a cross-talk; not only between different research fields, ie. animal science and feed and food safety, consumer science, but also to implement the contacts between research institutions (universities and food and agriculture institutes) and feed/food safety authorities and control bodies. Currently, more than 25 countries and 50 research institutes have joined the action. The Feed for Health project works mainly through four Working Groups (WG): Feed and food for health (WG1), Feed Safety (WG2), Feed Supply (WG3), and Consumer concerns and perceptions (WG4). During its life span the action evidenced that wholesome and balanced feed is essential not only for promoting animal growth, production and health, but also for producing high quality food products. This is particularly likely to be true in large scale animal production, where nutrition-based interventions for health can offer a practical and efficient solution to maintaining animal health. However, connections between feed, animal nutrition, animal health, and healthy animal products for humans have been mainly investigated considering one or a limited number of nutrients at a time. Feed safety aspects have also been investigated on a piecemeal basis: at the level of individual contaminants. In this context the action contributed in pooling, integrating and disseminating information in nutritional optimization and safety of all food-producing animals (including fish). Furthermore, an innovative approach in the action was to address the Consumer concerns and perceptions. Part of the activities were in fact, focused on the analysis of the preoccupations/perception of consumers as regards the effects of feed production processes on animal health and on the quality and safety of the resulting food products. This analysis has evidenced that FEED is perceived as particularly vulnerable in the livestock chain. During its lifespan the COST Action FA0802 promoted the acquisition and facilitated the dissemination of knowledge in these areas and encouraged cooperation between various research fields especially by the establishment of important training programmes for young scientists who have been able to work for periods in collaborators’ laboratories as part of Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM). 25
Investigation & the Development of Dynamic Mathematical Models of PRRSV Host-Pathogen Interactions Zeenath Islam, Roslin Research Institute, University of Edinburgh Email: zeenath.islam@roslin.ed.ac.uk Mathematical models of host-pathogen interactions provide valuable insight into the mechanisms underlying virus dynamics as they concern the dynamics of the complex system as a whole. In this study we investigate within-host interactions of the endemic viral disease Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome virus (PRRS), and conduct statistical analysis on data from five PRRS challenge studies. In particular we investigate functions describing the viral load profiles, which can be used for subsequent genetic analyses and for the validation of dynamic mathematical models of PRRS. Using mixed models we explored the fixed and random effects on the model parameters and found a nonlinear relationship between viral load and days post infection that is well described by the Woods function yi =At b e ¡ci t ; individual variation is represented in the parameter c which corresponds to the rate of decline from the peak viral load. Future studies will involve refining the models to account for viral reactivation; a phenomenon exhibited in approximately a third of the pigs in the dataset. Neither the role of hostgenetics nor the factors which drive this reactivation are yet fully understood. 26
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