Besuch von ECDC-Direktor im Public Health-Zentrum der IMED Wien: Marc Sprenger, Direktor des European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), war am 11. April 2013 zu Gast im Zentrum für anthropogene Infektionen des AGES Geschäftsfeldes "Öffentliche Gesundheit" in in Wien. Im Rahmen seines "Country visit" suchte er den fachlichen Austausch mit den AGES-ExpertInnen, interessierte sich für die Zuständigkeiten und die Rolle der AGES im österreichischen Gesundheitswesen.

1. Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbHwww.ages.at
AGES – Austrian Agency for Health and Food
Safety
Health for Humans, Animals and Plants

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Founded on June 1, 2002
Fusion of 18 Federal Agencies and Offices
Health and Food Safety Act (GESG)
Legal basis
Republic of Austria
Owner and Main Contracting Authority
> 1,400 Staff
at its locations in Vienna, Graz,
Innsbruck, Linz, Mödling and Salzburg
900,000 samples tested with
7.2 million individual analyses/year
Data, Facts, Figures

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AGES Structure
FoodSecurity
VeterinaryMedicine
FoodSafety
PublicHealth
AustrianMedicines&
MedicalDevicesAgency
Radiation Protection
Data, Statistics & Integrative Risk Assessment
Knowledge Transfer & Applied Research
Division
Department
1) 2)
1) Austrian Federal Office for Food Safety
2) Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care

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Statutory Tasks
Protection of health for humans, animals and plants, in particular …
• Analysis and assessment of agricultural equipment (seeds, pesticides, animal feed, …)
• International Treaty (Plant Genetic Resources)
• Analysis and assessment of products according to the Marketing Standards Act
• Analysis and assessment of samples according to the Food Safety and Consumer Protection
Act (LMSVG)
• Contributing to the prevention of animal diseases and diseases that can be transmitted
between species, monitoring animal health, testing animals for slaughter and meat
• Prevention of infectious diseases (reference centre management, …)
• Processing data of swimming areas
• Analysis and assessment of medicinal products
• Market surveillance of medical devices
• Research, information and cooperation
• Cooperation with national and international organisations
• Statements on drafts of relevant legal norms, research projects and parliamentary inquiries

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Division of Public Health
• Institutes
• Centre for anthropogenic Infections Vienna
• Centre for zoonotic Diseases Graz
• Centre for watersaftey Linz
• Tasks
• Infectious disease diagnostics
• Operation of several Reference laboratories
• Development of diagnostic methods
• National and international reporting
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AGES – Centre for anthropogenic
Infections Vienna
• Reference laboratories
• Tuberculosis
• Clostridium difficile
• Legionellosis
• Vibrio cholerae
• WHO-Polio reference laboratory
• Highly pathogenic bacteria
• Yersinia pestis
• Diphtheria
• 24h Rabies consulting
• Public health surveillance projects
• Austrian Mosquito surveillance from 2011 ongoing
• Starting 2013 Austrian tick surveillance
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AGES – Centre for anthropogenic
Infections Vienna
• Medical microbiology
• EN 17025 laboratory accreditation
• BSL2 and BSL3 facilities
• Clinical molecular biology
• EN 17025 laboratory accreditation
• Open tender for a NG-System
• Watersaftey and Hygiene
• full EN 17025 laboratory accreditation
• EPIET- host side
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Training programmes based at AGES
Participation of Austria since 2006
-European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology
Training (EPIET)
Two tracks
-EU-track: 1 alumni
-MS-track: currently 1 fellow (since 2011)
 EAP: European associated programme/Taiwan CDC (since:
2007)
-2 alumni (cohort 13, 15)
-currently 1 fellow

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Training opportunities
Outbreak investigation in
- zoonotic, respiratory, vaccine preventable
diseases,…
ID Surveillance: Data analysis/ Data interpretation
-IMD, IPD, TBC, zoonosis, Influenza
Research project in HCF-associated diseases
Introduction to molecular microbiology at the diverse
Reference Laboratories

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In cooperation with EPIET/EAP
Successfully
investigated
outbreaks!