Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority.

Hello everybody and welcome to a very special two-part episode of our podcast Science on the Menu.

Today we're going to cast our net a little wider than just the science of food safety and EFSA.

In fact, we're going to be talking about a topic which touches on many different aspects of the world around us

and which by extension involves the work of no fewer than five European Union agencies.

That topic is one health, which broadly speaking can be described as an approach to addressing

threats to health and well-being that recognise the interconnection between the health of people,

animals, plants and the environment.

And we're delighted to have a stellar line-up of guests with us today, all of whom have

kindly agreed to share with us their perspectives about One Health. So before we jump into the discussion,

I'm going to introduce everyone quickly and ask each of you to explain in a couple of sentences what it is the agency you work

for does. So starting with you, Mike, Mike Cachpole, who is the chief scientist at the European

Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, also known as ECDC. Welcome, Mike, and please tell us what

it is that ECDC does. Well, James, thank you for inviting me.

So ECDC's mission is to identify and to assess and communicate about infectious disease threats to human health.

Thank you, Mike.

Let's move on now to Dario Pizzelli, an expert in Environment and Health from the European Environment Agency. Welcome, Dario. Please tell us from the European Environment Agency.

Welcome, Dario.

Please tell us what the European Environment Agency does.

The main task of the agency is to provide sound independent information about the state of European environment.

Thank you, Dario. Okay, coming closer to home now, over to you, Carlos Tashnev, is the chief scientist at EFSA.

Carlos, can you explain briefly what EFSA does?

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