Affiliated Partner Institutes
Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene
Food Safety is an essential veterinary public health issue. The potential threat to public health from foodborne disease continues to increase.
The Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene (ILS) is part of the Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich and covers the field of veterinary food safety and hygiene in research, teaching, and services.
Research and teaching activities are focusing on the food chain (preharvest, harvest and postharvest level).
The ILS is the national reference laboratory for enteropathogenic bacteria and Listeria monocytogenes (human, food strains) as well as the national reference lab (NRL) for Shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) (animal strains).
Institute of Parasitology
The Institute of Parasitology at the University of Zurich (IPZ) was founded in 1968 as a dual institute of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Vetsuisse Faculty) and the Faculty of Medicine. The IPZ is a reference center for disease-associated vectors, a designation given by the Federal Veterinary Office. The National Centre for Vector Entomology at IPZ acts as the leading competence center and reference laboratory for arthropod vectors of animal pathogens. Furthermore, the institute is now affiliated with the One Health Institute.
The IPZ is a reference centre for echinococcosis, cryptosporidiosis, hypodermosis and animal disease-associated vectors appointed by the Federal Veterinary Office.