Evaluating procedures from the laboratory contingency plan for FMD, Croatian experience

The lecture presented the experience of the Croatian National reference laboratory (NRL) for Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) in evaluating the Laboratory contingency plan for FMD. The evaluation was performed within a tabletop simulation exercise co-organized by the Croatian Veterinary Institute (HVI) and The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD). The exercise aimed to test the relevance and applicability of pre-selected, specific procedures from the laboratory contingency plan. Apart from players and observers from the HVI, participants were also observers from NRL in Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.