2023 Annual Meeting & Workshop of NRLs for Mollusc Diseases

The 2023 Annual Meeting and the 14^th Technical Workshop of National Reference Laboratories for Mollusc Diseases was organised in La Tremblade, France, on the 3^rd-5^th of May 2023.

In total, 33 participants representing 16 countries attended the meeting.

The Annual Meeting included seven sessions:

1/ The current epidemiological situation in each Member State,

2/ Highlights on some recent surveillance results,

3/ EURL activities,

4/ Diagnosis development & validation,

5/ eDNA approaches,

6/ News from the bench,

7/ Freshwater bivalves.

The Technical Workshop included two practical sessions:

1/ Mollusc sampling & estimation of mollusc mortality rates,

2/ Mollusc processing in the laboratory.

The report of the meeting and workshop is available under the NRLs' section.