Before any communication and any epidemiological surveillance, a common language must be defined.

The unit's epidemiological surveillance and epidemiology work has developed mainly in the following areas:

Short presentation to what is and what will be done for epidemiological surveillance in France.

Pascal Hendrikx is the Scientific director of ANSES’s cross-disciplinary Epidemiology and epidemiological surveillance unit, and also a member of the 2018 InnovSur forum’s Scientific committee.

Improvement of the detection of BSE relies on clinical surveillance (i.e. passive epidemio-surveillance) and/or the application of the so-called rapid post mortem tests (i.e. active epidemio-surveillance).