Brussels – Fliera Italia CEO Luigi Scordamaglia was unanimously elected as the new Vice President of the European Federation for Animal Health and Sanitary Safety (FESASS) at the General Assembly with the responsibility for food safety representing the Italian Livestock Breeders’ Association (AIA).
“In the coming years, Fesass will be able and must play a fundamental role in Europe for the defense and promotion of a key sector for the rural economy and for the EU agri-food sector, such as the livestock sector,” Scordamaglia said. “Italian and EU breeders, as well as Aia, FESASS, and all the organizations that are part of it, have among their priority objectives the health and well-being of farm animals and this is the prerequisite for the production of safe and quality food for the final consumer, as well as for an EU livestock sector that is sustainable from an environmental, economic and social point of view,” Scordamaglia concluded.
Veterinary medicine has and will increasingly have a central role in managing the One Health model, which sees the health of the environment, animals, and humans inextricably linked.
Since 2001, FESASS has brought together the most important organizations responsible for animal health in 10 Member States. It represents 85% of the EU’s bovine herd and 75% of its pig, sheep, and goat herd and other livestock sectors such as poultry, rabbitry, and beekeeping.
