General contact

You may contact the EURL-Salmonella in general by emailing to: EURLSalmonella@rivm.nl

The EURL-Salmonella is situated at:

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu )
Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology (Z&O)

General contact information at: www.rivm.nl/en/contact

Contact persons EURL-Salmonella

Kirsten Mooijman
Head EURL

Telephone +31 6 2705 6743
Email: kirsten.mooijman@rivm.nl

Irene Pol
Detection studies

Telephone +31 6 2964 6897
Email: irene.pol@rivm.nl

Robin Diddens
Detection studies

Telephone +31 6 3114 2421
Email: robin.diddens@rivm.nl

Wilma Jacobs
Typing studies, website

Telephone +31 6 3114 2419
Email: wilma.jacobs@rivm.nl

Contact at the European Commission

Kris de Smet
European Commission, Health & Food Safety Directorate General (EC DG SANTE)

Directorate G – Crisis management in food, animals and plants 
G4 – Food hygiene 
Office B 232 - 03/003 - 1049 Brussels, Belgium 
Email: kris.de-smet@ec.europa.eu

Legal basis and activities 

EURL-Salmonella was established in 1992 according to the EU Directive 92/117/EC. This Directive concerned measures for protection against specified zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals and products of animal origin so as to prevent outbreaks of food-borne infections and intoxications. In 2003, this Directive was replaced by Directive 2003/99/EC on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents and by Regulation (EC) 2160/2003 on the control of Salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents. From 2006 to 2017, Regulation (EC) 882/2004 has formed the legal basis for the EURL. This latter regulation was replaced by Regulation (EU) 2017/625 in 2017.

The responsibilities and tasks of the European Union Reference Laboratories as listed in Article 94 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 are summarised in the following major activities:

• To ensure availability and use of high quality methods and to ensure high quality performance by NRLs;
• To provide scientific and technical assistance to NRLs;
• To provide scientific and technical assistance to the European Commission and other organisations.

EU legislation

Relevant EU legislation related to the EURL-Salmonella and NRL-Salmonella activities can be found on the website: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html 

Some of the (EU) Directives and Regulations are listed below. It occurs regularly that acts are changed after the date of publication. These changes are published in Amendments and/or Corrigenda to the original act. When following the link to the listed (EU) Directives and Regulations it is also possible to view the current consolidated version, showing the amendments and corrections (and its contents) after the original date of publication of an act.

• DIRECTIVE 92/117/EEC  of 17 December 1992 (no longer in force) on measures for protection against specified zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals and products of animal origin to prevent outbreaks of food-borne infections and intoxications [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206503644&uri=C…]
• DIRECTIVE 2003/99/EC  of 17 November 2003 on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents, amending Council Decision 90/424/EEC and repealing Council Directive 92/117/EEC [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206547615&uri=C…]
• REGULATION (EC) No 2160/2003  of 17 November 2003 on the control of Salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206590096&uri=C…]
• REGULATION (EC) No 882/2004  of 29 April 2004 (no longer in force) on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, and with animal health and animal welfare rules [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206641220&uri=C…]
• REGULATION (EU) 2017/625 of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206712644&uri=C…]
• REGULATION (EC) No 2073/2005  Commission Regulation of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206231404&uri=C…]
• COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) no 208/2011  of 2 March 2011 amending Annex VII to Regulation (EC) no 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) no 180/2008 and (EC) no 737/2008 as regards lists and names of EU reference laboratories [link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1596206438869&uri=C…]