AGA |
FAO Animal Production and Health Division |
AHCNENA |
Animal Health Commission for Near East and North Africa |
AMU |
Arab Maghreb Union |
AOAD |
Arab Organization for Agricultural Development |
APHCA |
Regional Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
AST |
antimicrobial susceptibility testing |
AU-IBAR |
African Union-Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources |
BSE |
bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CFT |
complement fixation test |
CBPP |
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia |
ECO |
European Cooperation Organisation |
EDG |
electronic discussion group |
ELISA |
Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay |
EQAS |
External Quality Assurance System |
ESNS |
FAO Food Safety and Quality Service |
EU |
European Union |
EU-FMD |
European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
FMD |
food-and-mouth disease |
FPA |
fluorescence polarization assay |
GCC |
Arab Gulf Cooperation Council |
GF-TADs |
Global Framework for the Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases |
GLEWS |
Global Early Warning System |
GPHIN |
Global Public Health Information Network |
GOARN |
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network |
GREP |
Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme |
GSS |
Global Salm-Surv |
HACCP |
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (System) |
HPAI |
highly pathogenic avian influenza |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
IICA |
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture |
ITFDE |
International Task Force for Disease Eradication |
MDGs |
Millennium Development Goals |
MERCOSUR |
Southern Common Market |
MZCC |
Mediterranean Zoonoses Control Centre |
MZCP |
Mediterranean Zoonoses Control Programme |
OIE |
World Organization for Animal Health |
OIRSA |
Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria |
PAHO |
Pan-American Health Organization |
PANAFTOSA |
Pan-American Foot and Mouth Disease Center |
PCR |
polymerase chain reaction |
SAARC |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
SADC |
Southern African Development Community |
SARS |
severe acute respiratory syndrome |
SPS |
sanitary and phytosanitary |
STEC |
Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli 0157 |
TADs |
transboundary animal diseases |
TCP |
Technical Cooperation Programme |
VCIA |
veterinary critically important antimicrobial |
VPH |
veterinary public health |
VUH |
veterinary urban hygiene |
WFS |
World Food Summit |
WFS:fyl |
World Food Summit: five years later |
WHO |
World Health Organization |
WTO |
World Trade Organization |