The EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) recently published an analysis of the European Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) 3-year monitoring programme.

This opinion provides the reader with: an analysis of the results of the monitoring programme carried out in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland between 1 September 2017 and 28 February 2022; a description of recent new knowledge on the epidemiology of CWD in EU/EEA countries; recommendations on future CWD monitoring activities for the EU; a description of criteria relevant for assessing the probability of CWD presence; the design of a genotyping protocol for samples collected over the 3-year monitoring programme.

https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7936