It includes five keynote speeches, seven thematic sessions and 37 specialist presentations from various countries.
The Antibiotics Congress in Aquaculture, that organize the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Salmon Technology Institute (Intesal), will take place between the 20th and 22nd of November this year in the city of Puerto Varas, Los Lagos region, Chile.
The event has a prestigious scientific committee and the collaboration of key organizations such as the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences (FAVET) from the University of Chile (University of Chile), the Catholic University of Chile (UC), the Pincoy Project and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Aquaculture Research (INCAR).
Favet, through Farmavet, is part of the scientific cloister for the Congress of Antibiotics in Aquaculture.
Exhibitors and exhibitors will announce advances in antimicrobial resistance (RAM); strategies for prevention, sustainability and the environment; optimization of antimicrobial treatments; alternative therapies to the use of antimicrobials; and policies and regulations.
The program also features a modality session "pitch"where oral presentations are only five minutes. In addition, the congress will recognize the best presentations.
From the FAVET will participate the Dr. Javiera Cornejo, academic of the Faculty, director of the Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology (Farmavet) and the Collaborating Centre CASA of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OMSA)who will present the work entitled "Monitoring of antimicrobial residues in aquaculture products: At what point are we today?".
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Dr. Alicia Gallardo
For her part, the senior researcher of CASA and chair of the WHOA Committee on Aquatic Animal Standards, Dr. Alicia Gallardo, will present the keynote talk entitled "A Health, An Aquaculture. WHOA tools to prevent RAM."
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"On behalf of the Health Standards Committee of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OMSA), I am pleased to participate in this congress and applaud your implementation in Chile, given that it goes precisely in the line of the global call to address RAM in multi-sectoral formcombining specific interventions for the sectors of human health, agriculture, animal health and the environment, A Health"“It’s true,” Dr. Gallardo.
In turn, he emphasized that it is very relevant, in this approach to One Health, that the congress addresses research and knowledge on aquatic animal health with a view to strengthening the health of aquatic animals. preventive approach"as well as the environmental dimension of the RAM to take catalytic measures to address the main sources of antimicrobial pollution."
- See below the program recently delivered by the organization of the congress, from where representatives from countries such as Chile, the United States, Spain and France stood out:
Early registration for the event will be available until Wednesday, October 30, PRESSING HERE.
* Credits from the featured photo (in context): courtesy of the Technological Program for the Local Production of Nutritional Inputs for Aquaculture (PTEC-INVA).
