A geographical information system for the management of the aquaculture data in the Adriatic Sea - the Strengthening of Centres for Aquaculture Production and Safety surveillance in the Adriatic countries experience: Present capabilities, tools and functions

Submitted: 8 June 2017
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Published: 8 November 2017
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The European Commission (EC) regulation no. 854/2004 requires a systematic monitoring of chemical and microbiological contaminants in live bivalve molluscs, live echinoderms, live tunicates and live marine gastropods for human consumption through surveillance plans to be implemented in all European Union (EU) countries.A consortium of five Adriatic countries was set up in the framework of the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme (IPA Adriatic CBC) 2007- 2013 with the aim of collecting data and distribute information on harvesting and production in mollusc areas. A web-based geographical information system (GIS) application was developed to support the partners to manage data and to make these data available to final users, policy makers and to risk assessors. The GIS for the Strengthening of Centres for Aquaculture Production and Safety surveillance in the Adriatic countries (CAPS2) is divided into two levels, the national and the supranational one, and it distributes spatial and epidemiological information coming from various data acquisition and management sites. The great innovation is the possibility for each country to use online drawing, modifying and change of the geographic areas according to national surveillance needs. Currently it hosts data coming from about 230 production and relay areas with more than 29,478 laboratory tests performed on collected samples since August 2014. Data collected are used by each national competent authority to classify production or relay areas according to the EC regulation mentioned and to conduct risk assessment studies to evaluate the level of consumers' exposure to contaminants in the consumption of bivalve mollusc products.

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IPA Adriatic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007 – 2013

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Tora, S., Sacchini, S., Listeš, E., Bogdanović, T., Di Lorenzo, A., Smajlović, M., Smajlović, A., Filipović, J. V., Tahirović, V., Å uković, D., Beljkas, B., Xinxo, A., Maçi, R., Colangeli, P., Di Giacinto, F., & Conte, A. (2017). A geographical information system for the management of the aquaculture data in the Adriatic Sea - the Strengthening of Centres for Aquaculture Production and Safety surveillance in the Adriatic countries experience: Present capabilities, tools and functions. Geospatial Health, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2017.593

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