01 June 2023
Next EURL annual workshop in October 2023
After three online annual workshops, the 13th annual workshop will be held...

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Next EURL annual workshop in October 2023
Published on
01/06/2023
After three online annual workshops, the 13th annual workshop will be held at ANSES Sophia Antipolis (France) on Tuesday 10th October 2023. The EURL will welcome the representatives of the European and Third-Country NRL network. The annual workshop is the opportunity for the NRL network to exchange, to receive news from the partners and to give information on the activities run in 2023.
Detection of SHB in La Reunion island (France)
Published on
14/02/2023
Update on April 17th 2023 On March 1st 2023, protection zones around Saint-Pierre and Saint-Joseph were removed. A surveillance zone of 10 km around outbreaks in Saint-Philippe was set up with the same measures than previously in place in protection zones (Figure 1). Identification and traceability of colony movements were set up for the entire territory. Surveillance continues and the objective remains at the moment eradication of SHB. On April 3rd 2023, a new case was found in Saint-...
THE 12TH EURL ANNUAL WORKSHOP HELD ON OCTOBER 2022
Published on
10/10/2022
The EURL for Bee Health held its 12th annual workshop on 4th & 5th October 2022 by video conference. This workshop was a success with up to 56 connections at the same time. Dr. Franco Mutinelli, Head of the Italian NRL, presented a state of play of the occurrence and surveillance of SHB in Southern Italy. The participants had also the pleasure to listen to two presentations of NRLs’ activities and the current honey bee health status in Denmark by Dr. Per Kryger (head of the Danish...
The EURL support for an accreditation process
Published on
02/06/2022
The EURL team was happy to welcome our colleagues from the Danish NRL, Per Kryger, head of the NRL, and his technician, Anna la Cour, to support them in their process of accreditation on regulated diseases. They were welcomed by Stéphanie Franco and Véronique Duquesne, also heads of the French NRL for Bee Health, Karim Sidi-Boumedine, the bacteriology project manager and former laboratory quality manager, and Marie-Pierre Rivière, head of the HoneyBee Pathology Unit and...
The first EURL webinar held on November 2021
Published on
30/11/2021
In 2021, the EURL for Bee health initiated a new format to exchanges within the NRL network. The first EURL webinar was organized on 30th November. The objective was to discuss the activities on viruses for 2022 and later. After a presentation of the advances in the activities on virus disease diagnosis at the EURL, Eric Dubois (virologist at the EURL) opened the discussion with the NRLs on the next proficiency test and the development of a database on the dynamic of bee viruses across Europe....
The 11th EURL annual workshop held on September 2021
Published on
24/09/2021
The EURL for Bee Health held its 11th annual workshop on 22nd and 23rd September 2021 by video conference. This workshop was a success with up to 59 participants connected at the same time. This year, the discussions focused on the American foulbrood and the advantages of new molecular tools for the study and surveillance of this disease. The EURL presented the development of a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme (cgMLST) for P. larvae (EuroPLarva project), agent of the American...
The 10th EURL annual workshop held on October 2020
Published on
23/10/2020
The EURL for Bee Health held its 10th annual workshop on 21st and 22nd October 2020 by video conference. This first remote EURL workshop was a success with up to 54 participants connected at the same time. This year, the discussions focused on exotic diseases with presentations on the small hive beetle (SHB) and Tropilaelaps spp. mites, whose a ring test for morphological identification that the EURL organised was presented. Dr. Franco Mutinelli, Head of the Italian NRL, presented a state of...
Inter-laboratory comparative tests scheduled by the EURL in 2020
Published on
18/12/2019
Identification of Aethina tumida, the Small Hive Beetle, by morphological examination and PCR Aims: To evaluate the conformity of the results obtained by the European Union (EU) National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) for the identification of Aethina tumida by morphological examination and PCR. Requirements for participation: NRLs from EU Member States and NRLs from third countries (depending on the feasibility). Inter-laboratory comparative test (ILCT) methods:...
The 9th. EURL annual workshop held on October 16th. 2019
Published on
17/10/2019
The EURL for Bee Health held its 9th. annual workshop on 16th. October 2019 at ANSES Sophia Antipolis. This year the EURL presented the feedback on the three interlaboratory proficiency tests (ILPT) organised in 2018-2019, on the small hive beetle (SHB), Paenibacillus larvae and Tropilaelaps as well as the ILPTs scheduled in 2020. Since the last annual workshop, methods were also developed and/or validated for the quantification of pesticides multiresidues in nectar, for the identification of...
LEILA application: online platform for Anses inter-laboratory tests
Published on
13/08/2019
The inter-laboratory tests (ILTs) organised by Anses are now managed through an online tool: LEILA, accessible via the following link: https://leila.anses.fr.   LEILA enables to consult the list of the Anses ILTs (organised in the past, in progress, or open for registration). For more information about LEILA use and the creation of your laboratory account, please consult the user manual (start at page 40 for the English version).

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