Gunnar Sundstøl Eriksen

The general objective of EU-WISH is to support the 26 participating European countries to enhance, extend and consolidate wastewater surveillance for public health. The Norwegian Institute for Public Health and the Norwegian Veterinary Institute represent Norway in this project.

Today, about 92 percent of the raw materials used in Norwegian aquafeeds are currently imported. Shellfish can be a sustainable feed supplement and valuable local marine resource, but are regularly contaminated with algal toxins. The ShellFeed-project aim at providing knowledge about the toxicity of the algal toxins (OA/DTXs and STXs) in salmon after dietary exposure, and potential carry-over of these toxins or their metabolites into fish fillets or by-products.

I dag importeres om lag 92 prosent av råvarene som brukes i norsk fiskefôr. Skalldyr kan være et bærekraftig fôrtilskudd og en verdifull lokal marin ressurs, men er regelmessig forurenset med algetoksiner. ShellFeed-prosjektet har som mål å skaffe kunnskap om toksisiteten til algetoksiner (OA/DTX-er og STX-er) i laks etter fôreksponering, og potensiell overføring av disse toksinene eller deres metabolitter til fiskefilet eller biprodukter.

Algal blooms occur naturally and such algal blooms can be harmful to aquatic life. The ToxANoWa project is a direct result of the toxic algal bloom in Northern Norway in the spring of 2019, which was catastrophic for the aquaculture industry and resulted in the death of around 40,000 tons of salmon. It is unknown why this alga may be toxic to fish, but the project will contribute to new knowledge around this.

Algeoppblomstring forekommer naturlig og slike algeoppblomstringer kan være skadelige for livet i vannet. ToxANoWa-prosjektet er et direkte resultat av den giftige algeoppblomstringen i Nord-Norge våren 2019, som var katastrofal for oppdrettsnæringen og førte til at rundt 40 000 tonn laks døde. Det er ukjent hvorfor denne algen er giftig for fisk, men prosjektet forventes å bidra med ny kunnskap rundt dette.

NVI is a partner in NAMC - North Atlantic Microplastic Centre (NAMC). NAMC is organized by NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and aims to engage leading researchers nationally and internationally in a joint effort to understand and quantify how much microplastics is in the environment, the risks related to microplastic pollution in our surroundings, and the best ways to manage the challenge. 

NVI is a partner in NAMC - North Atlantic Microplastic Centre (NAMC). NAMC is organized by NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and aims to engage leading researchers nationally and internationally in a joint effort to understand and quantify how much microplastics is in the environment, the risks related to microplastic pollution in our surroundings, and the best ways to manage the challenge. 

PARC is a EU funded partnership for risk assessment of chemicals. Some main aims of the project are to provide new data, methods and innovative tools to those responsible for assessing and managing the risks of chemical exposure and to strengthen the networks, which bring together actors specialised in the different scientific fields contributing to risk assessment.

The main aim in MycoSafeBread is to develop a combination of new milling technology and mycotoxin-reducing processing to manufacture bread products tailored for young children, with an absolute minimum of the mycotoxin DON, while meeting the recommendations for wholegrain consumption and nutrient composition.

PARC is a EU funded partnership for risk assessment of chemicals. Some main aims of the project are to provide new data, methods and innovative tools to those responsible for assessing and managing the risks of chemical exposure and to strengthen the networks, which bring together actors specialised in the different scientific fields contributing to risk assessment.

The aim is to establish an in vitro gill epithelial model for Atlantic salmon to predict harmful environmental and infective challenges and as a tool to study cellular mechanisms. 

Vi ønsker å etablere en in vitro gjelleepitelmodell for Atlantisk laks for å forutsi skadelige miljø- og infeksjonsutfordringer og som et verktøy for å studere cellulære mekanismer

BIO-Direct is a strategic internal project at the Veterinary institute, funded for 4 years 2019-2022. The project involves more than 20 researchers and technical staff organized into five cross-diciplinary teams: 1. Disease biomarkers, 2. Immune protection, 3. Gene editing, 4. Cell models, and 4. Multiplexed immunoassays.

Norsk fjørfenæring har som mål å avvikle bruken av koksidiostatika i oppdrettet av konvensjonell slaktekylling, og treng eit solid kunnskapsgrunnlag for å finne ut korleis dette best kan skje.

Risk assessment conducted by The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food (2013) states that the Norwegian population is daily exposed to the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) from ingesting contaminated cereal products. In this project we will study the fate of free and bound (“masked”) forms of mycotoxins in wheat and oats through processing techniques relevant to the Norwegian industry. The ultimate goal of the project is to ensure production of safe and high quality cereal products with respect to mycotoxin contamination.

Målet med prosjektet er å bidra til ny kunnskap om betydningen av trichothecener og andre mykotoksiner på svinehelse og dermed generere viktig kunnskap som er nødvendig for å kunne gjøre tiltak som forbedrer situasjonen.

Cereals are infected by a range of biological and chemical contaminants, including fungi, mycotoxins, bacteria and protozoa. Humans ingesting cereals are therefore exposed to a mixture of contaminants.

To protect the health of populations and individuals, policies need to integrate environmental and health issues. The aim of HENVINET is to support such informed policy making.

The main objective of the project is to acquire new knowledge about a health problem preliminarily designated gizzard inflammation in commercial broiler chickens and slaughter turkeys.

MyMatch er et prosjekt som skal predikere hvordan klimaendringer påvirker forekomst av toksinproduserende muggsopp og muggsoppgifter i mat og fôr. Klimaendringer har allerede ført til økt forekomst av noen muggsoppgifter, og man forventer at dette fortsette. Målet med MyMatch er å utvikle et digitalt verktøy som skal forutsi endringer i forekomst av muggsoppgifter i matkjeden, og gi hjelp for å gjennomføre tiltak for å redusere utbredelsen av slike.