Last week, a two-day meeting was held here at IFL in one part of the SEAFOODplus cluster project. This is the Seabac project, which is one of four categories that fall under the third pillar (3rd pill) of Sfplus.
Seabac's full name is Seafood: Enhanced assessment of bacterial associated contamination and its project manager is dr. Rachel Rangdale from The Center for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) in the UK.
According to Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir, who works on this project on behalf of IFL and organized the meeting here in Reykjavík, it was a regular project meeting. "We are working on developing methods to find pathogens Vibrio spp. in shellfish. We use both PCR methods and so-called "hybridization" methods, "she says. Sigrún says that work is also underway to develop a PFGE method for comparing relationships V. parahaemolyticus strains that have been found.
The meeting was attended by participants from the UK, France, Italy, Portugal and Iceland. A participant from Spain was not able to attend the meeting.