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Pine blister rust outbreak traced to peonies

Pine blister rust outbreak traced to peonies The transmission of pathogens between plant species can have major health and economic...

PFAS: results of the national measurement campaign for drinking water

The national campaign to measure emerging compounds in drinking water, carried out by ANSES from 2023 to 2025, focused on PFAS. Until now, the...

Avian influenza: human health risks and preventive measures

France has seen an increase in the number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in recent weeks, particularly along the...

Antimicrobial resistance in animal health: 2024 review

To mark World Antibiotic Awareness Week, ANSES is publishing the annual results from the schemes it coordinates on the monitoring of veterinary...

Research projects to improve understanding of emerging pathogens that can be transmitted from animals to humans

Most pandemics are zoonotic in origin, caused by pathogens that can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa. To anticipate and...

The caps of glass bottles contaminate beverages with microplastics

Microplastics are present in all beverages, but those packaged in glass bottles contain more microplastic particles than those in plastic bottles,...

50 years of the Fougères Laboratory

Located in a livestock farming region at the heart of Brittany since 1975, the Fougères Laboratory has evolved to specialise in risks associated...

An innovative method to more accurately measure dietary exposure to arsenic

Some forms of arsenic are toxic and even carcinogenic. ANSES’s Laboratory for Food Safety has developed an innovative method that will enable...

ANSES’s role in limiting the spread of new cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe

Since early 2025, outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have been reported in Germany, and more recently in Hungary and Slovakia. We provide an...

Agricultural biodiversity and climate change: vegetation in the margins of fields has changed in just 10 years

Scientists from INRAE and ANSES have been studying changes in field margin vegetation on 500 agricultural plots in mainland France, to understand...

ANSES portraits: women in science 2025

In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we take a closer look at the backgrounds and careers of five women who...

On the lookout for new strategies to test protein toxicity

The ANSES Fougères Laboratory coordinated the Protox project, which aimed to propose a strategy for determining protein toxicity using new...