Norwegian fish health legislation

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Norwegian fish health legislation

• Stian Johnsen
• Head office

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Norwegian Food Safety Authority objectives and
functions

• Objectives
• Ensure food safety
• Promote health, quality, consumer affairs and
  environmentally friendly production
• Promote plant-, fish- and animal health and
  welfare
• Functions
• Monitoring, control and surveillance to ensure
  that objectives are achieved
• Risk based approach to control
• Contingency planning and training
• Prepare and draft regulations
• Information to the public and to industry
• Advise the Ministries

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Norwegian Food Safety Authority
Ministry of Agriculture and Food (Administrativel
y responsible)
Ministry of Health and Care Services
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
Norwegian Food Safety Authority
Reporting to one ministry for human protection
and to two ministries for economic development
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Norwegian Food Safety Authority Organisation
Cover the whole country and the full food chain
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Norwegian Food Safety Authority Organisation of
Head Office
Dir. gen.
Analysis, Control, Communication
Administration
Regulation
Controls
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Cooperation with other bodies Scientific support
Scientific committee Risk assessment
Reference laboratories and research
centres Scientific support and reference
functions
Food Safety Authority Risk management
Diagnostic Laboratories Tender based diagnostic
services
Political authorities Risk management Decide
protection level
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Cooperation with other bodies Scientific support
for fish and seafood

• National reference laboratory and research
  centres
• National Veterinary Institute
• The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood
  Research
• Norwegian school of veterinarian science
• Institute of Marine Research

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Food-, feed- and animal health legislation

• Based on international principles
• Codex Alimentarius (FHO/WHO)
• World organization for
• animal health (OIE)
• Part of the EU/EEA internal market
• as regards veterinary issues
• Common veterinary legislation
• Food, feed, animal health and welfare
• Veterinary border control for
• EU/EEA internal market
• No internal border controls between
• Norway and EU

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Norwegian Food Safety Authority What do we
expect?

• Industry is the responsible operator
• We expect industry to deliver safe food to the
  market
• We recognize that food is biology and that
  industry not can guarantee 0-risk
• We do not accept unsafe food on the market

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Approval of aqauaculture farm
Directorate of Fisheries
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The establishment of new farms

• Salmon licences are restricted
• Other species Not restricted but must comply
  with the regulations

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Establishment, expansion and operation of a farm

• The application must contain
• Name of the farmsowner
• The localization, design and description of
  operations
• Info about the species of aquaculture animals,
  age and volume.
• Emergency plan
• Internal control system
• Documentation of the localisationsappropriatenes
  s regarding welfare including water quality.

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Establishment, expansion and operation of a farm

• What is considered
• The risk of spreading diseases
• Distance to water catchment areas, other
  aquaculture farms and the type of production on
  those farms.
• The localisations capacity (Current, depth,
  salinity etc)

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Establishment, expansion and operation of a farm

• Distance to other farms (in sea)
• Minimum distance of 5 km slaughterhouses,
  broodfish sites, inlet for land based farms,
  smolt farms in sea, large washeries for net pens.
• Minimum distance of 2,5 km other farms in the
  sea (on-growing), land based farms, rivers with
  salmonid stocks.

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The fish health legislation

• Fully harmonised with the EU- legislation,
  Council Directive 2006/88/EC.
• Placing on the market and imports
• Minimum control measures for control of aquatic
  diseases
• The Food Act

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Placing on the market

• Regulations according to listed diseases and
  health status
• Exotic and non exotic diseases national list
• 5 health categories
• Placing on the market between farms with similar
  of lower health status

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Listed diseases

• List 1 Exotic diseases Exotic to the EU/EEA
• Fish EHN og EUS
• Molluscs Bonamia exitiosa, Perkinsus marinus og
  Microcytos mackini
• Crustaceans Taurasyndrom
• List 2 non-exotic diseases not exotic to the
  EU/EEA
• Fish IHN, VHS, KHV og ISA
• Mollucs Marteilia refringens og Bonamia ostreae
• Crustaceans White spot disease
• List 3 National diseases
• Fish BKD, G. salaris, VNN/VER, furunculose, PD,
  HSMI, franciselloses og salmon lice
• Crustaceans Creyfish plague

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Categories for the healt status of non-exotic
diseases

• Category I
• Declared disease-free
• Category II
• Not declared disease-free but subject to an
  apporved surveillance programme in order to gain
  free-status.
• Category III
• Not known to be infected bit not subject to
  surveillance programme for achieving disease-free
  status.
• Category IV
• Known to be infected but subject to an approved
  eradication programme in order to gain
  free-status.
• Category V
• Known to be infected. Subject to minimum control
  measures.

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Fish Diseases of Major Concern in Norway

• Pancreas disease
• Infectious salmon anemia
• Salmon lice
• Gyrodactylus salaris infestation
• Francisellosis

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Preventive Health Care in Norwegian Fish Farming

• Licensing and registration system
• Management plan for grow out farms
• Mandatory health control
• Disease surveillance programmes
• Feed produced according to official regulations
• Dead fish handling system
• Approval of transport vessels
• Mandatory to slaughter farmed fish in approved
  slaughterhouses
• Vaccination

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ISA in Norway 1984-2007, outbreaks (incidens) per
year.
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Chronological list of measures implemented to
control ISA in Norway 1988 ISA was placed on
list B of notifiable diseases 1989 Obligatory
health certificate - health control in
hatcheries - 12 regulatory health assessments
a year - Disinfection of eggs Ban on use
of sea water in hatcheries Ban on moving fish
already put to sea 1990 Regulation on
transport - disinfection of well boats
Segregation of generations (all in/all out)
encouraged on a voluntarily basis
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Chronological list of measures implemented to
control ISA in Norway 1991 Regulation of
disinfection of waste water from slaughter
houses and processing plants Regulation for
disinfecting sea water for use in hatcheries
Control and containment of dead fish in farms
1992 Introduction of local zones to combat
outbreaks 1996 Official guidelines for dealing
with outbreaks 2002 The first official
contingency plan for control of ISA in Norway
2004 Contingency plan revised
http//www.mattilsynet.no/fisk/smittevern_og_bekje
mpelse/ila/regelverk_bekjempelse 2005
Segregation of generations (all in/all out)
made mandatory
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Effect of vaccination on the use of antibiotics
in Norway (Håstein 2004)

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Infectious Fish Diseases and Vaccination in
Norwegian Aquaculture
Vibriosis - Listonella anguillarum - effective
vaccine Cold water vibriosis- Vibrio
salmonicida -effective vaccine Furunculosis -
Aeromonas salmonicida - effective vaccine Winter
ulcers - Moritella viscosa -
vaccine Infectious Salmon Anemia - ISA- virus -
no approved vacc. Infectious Pancreas Necrosis -
IPN- virus - vaccine Pancreas Disease (PD) S
P D virus - vaccine Sea lice- Lepeophtheirus
salmonis - no vaccine
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Fish Disease Control

• Stamping out
• Fallowing
• Zones
• Sanitary slaughter
• Transport regulations
• Vaccination

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Control of veterinary drug

• Main elements
• Must be administered by authorised personnel
• All prescriptions are centrally registered
• Withdrawal periods for drugs
• Standard notification form before slaughtering
• Laboratory testing for drug residues

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Antifouling

• Environmental issue Norwegian Pollution Control
  Authority
• The substance must be approved and listed by the
  Biocide Directive
• The release of antifouling substances into the
  nature is forbidden from facilities conducting
  such operations
• Alternatives cleaning the net pens in sea

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