Rooted in the Brittany and New Aquitaine regions, the Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort laboratory specializes in animal health and well-being as well as food safety. It works on all livestock species, such as poultry, pigs and rabbits in Ploufragan, farmed fish in Plouzané and ruminants in Niort.
A key player in health security
The emergence of new pathogens and the re-emergence of old threats jeopardize the health of farmed animals and sometimes that of consumers. For sixty years, the laboratory teams have worked daily to better understand the complex interactions between these pathogens, animals, farming conditions and agri-food production in order to meet the needs of the sectors and contribute to public policies.
The recent avian influenza and African swine fever crises have shown that the re-emergence of these scourges is always possible even within the framework of a well-organized health system. The laboratory validates and deploys reliable and innovative methods with a network of approved laboratories to detect these major contaminants, thus increasing the responsiveness of our veterinary public health system. Conducting high-level research while being able to redeploy its scientific teams to support the management of a health crisis is one of the strengths of the activity of the Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort laboratory.
Contribute to building the breeding of tomorrow
By placing livestock systems at the heart of its research activities, the laboratory helps to fight and prevent the diseases that affect these different sectors as well as the safety of their production. The laboratory is also studying new farming methods to meet the challenges of animal welfare and worker health, while controlling the risks to consumer health and the impact on the environment. Indeed, the work of the laboratory, focused on animal well-being, makes it possible to offer innovative farming systems that are part of a “One Health” and “One Welfare” approach, a single health and a single well-being. being, human and animal.
Partnerships at the service of research and scientific innovation
The laboratory benefits from historical support from local authorities, Brittany and New Aquitaine regions, Côtes d’Armor department, Saint-Brieuc Armor Agglomeration. Strengthened by partnerships with the animal production sectors, within the Technopole de Saint-Brieuc Armor in particular, the laboratory collaborates with many national organizations (INRA, IFREMER, CIRAD, INSERM, IRSTEA, CNRS , the universities, etc.) and international ones, such as the World Organization for Animal Health. Thanks to its scientific dynamism, the laboratory is also a partner in numerous research projects funded by the European Union.
These numerous partnerships have enabled the laboratory to acquire state-of-the-art high-throughput sequencing facilities, high-level technical and biological safety laboratory and breeding buildings on which it relies to carry out its research work. and reference. The new building dedicated to improving poultry farming conditions, inaugurated today, is an illustration of these innovative infrastructures that will enable the laboratory to build its research of tomorrow.
ANSES also wished to formalize today its collaboration with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), which aims to combine the technologies developed by CEA Tech and the biological systems developed by ANSES, at the innovation service for the detection, fight and prevention of health risks.
With sixty years of scientific partnerships, discoveries and outstanding results, the ANSES laboratory thus contributes to generating knowledge that is essential for the assessment, assessment and management of health risks.
[1] The “One Health, one health” concept is an international approach that strengthens collaboration between human health, animal health and environmental management (WHO/OIE/FAO). The concept “One Welfare, one well-being” is an approach that aims to recognize that animal welfare, biodiversity and the environment are connected to human well-being.
