Arcangeli Giuseppe
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Structure/Role | Veterinarian SCS3 – Ecosystems Director National Reference Centre for Fish, Crustacean and Mollusc Pathology |
| Phone | +39 049 8084281 | |
| garcangeli@izsvenezie.it |
Professional profile
Giuseppe Arcangeli is a senior veterinary officer at the SCS3 – Ecosystems Unit of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), and Director of the National Reference Centre for Fish, Crustacean and Mollusc Pathology.
He holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine and has been working for 25 years in the field of seafood product hygiene and the pathology of farmed aquatic animals. His main activities focus on disease diagnosis and the implementation of surveillance programs for the protection of fish, mollusc, and crustacean farms, as well as the safety control of derived products.
He collaborates with the Italian National Health Service (regional and local veterinary services) to supervise controls along the entire seafood production chain. He provides technical support for the development of national and regional monitoring plans regarding diseases of farmed fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, as well as the safety assessment of derived products. A significant part of his work has been and continues to be dedicated to the development of biomolecular diagnostic methods to combat commercial fraud involving fish species substitution. This effort led to the creation of the web-based database ITTIOBASE, which provides genomic sequence data for the main fish species consumed in Italy.
He has served as scientific coordinator for numerous research projects approved and funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, covering topics such as: enteric viruses in bivalve molluscs, novel diagnostic methods in fish and mollusc pathology, and techniques for inactivating parasites and enteric viruses in seafood products using high hydrostatic pressure and cooking methods.
He is author/co-author of over 150 scientific publications.He has been invited as a lecturer for numerous Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses on seafood hygiene and inspection, and has served as a technical expert in official missions organized by the Public Veterinary Services of Slovenia, Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey, Russia, and Libya. He is regularly invited as a national expert to European Commission training programs (BTSF, TAIEX, FVO). From 2004 to 2011, he collaborated with DG SANCO on drafting European guidelines for the microbiological monitoring of shellfish harvesting areas. He serves as an adjunct professor at several Italian universities, teaching postgraduate courses on seafood hygiene.
National and international appointments:
- Member of the SCAR-FISH Working Group, European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (RTD), delegated by the Italian Ministry of Health;
- Member of the National Committee for the Commercial Designation of Seafood Products (MiPAAF Ministerial Decree No. 0011409 of May 16, 2015);
- Member of the ITAQUA Aquaculture Commission, established by MiPAAF (Decree Prot. PEMAC No. 0008004 of April 5, 2017);
- Member of the National Committee on Aquaculture of Exotic Species (MiPAAF Ministerial Decree No. 339/2008);
- European Union TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument) Expert since February 2008;
- Founder and President of the Italian Society of Applied Research in Mollusc Culture (SIRAM) from 2011 to 2019.