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| CONTENT 04 GD’s all-in service to establish veterinary laboratories
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06 State-of-the-art applied
research on poultry health
08 Assuring dairy cattle welfare
10 GD Proficiency testing schemes 2014
12 News & Communications
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Teaming up for animal health As a new member of GD’s International team, I am proud to present this renewed GD Update. The magazine not only has a newly designed cover, but also features four extra pages covering our activities in the field of Research and Development (see pages 6-9). Our motto “Teaming up for animal health” is now also clearly shown on the cover. After all, that’s what GD is all about. GD Animal Health has been, and still is a partner in many national and international animal health projects. Our activities in projects vary from setting up new laboratories abroad, to data management and data analysis, courses on the prevention and monitoring of animal diseases, quality control training, and many other subjects. GD is a partner in company-specific issues as well as largescale multidisciplinary veterinary surveillance projects. On pages 4 and 5 of this GD Update, you can read more about our new custom-made projects aiming at the development of new veterinary labs or the increase of lab capacity.
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Contact information GD international If you want to know more about what GD can do for you, please contact one of our staff members, responsible for international sales:
Gerard Wellenberg, PhD, BSc
Eveline Peereboom – de Haan, BSc
Head International and
Account manager
Special Accounts
Pharmacy
Annemiek Kolkman, BSc
Madelon Bolderman, MSc
Product sales manager
Account manager
Diagnostics and PTS
Feed
phone In the Netherlands 0900-1770, Outside the Netherlands +31 (0)570-63 33 91 Fax + 31 (0)570-63 41 04 | E-mail info@gddeventer.com | Website www.gddeventer.com | Mail address GD, P.O. Box 9, 7400 AA Deventer, the Netherlands | Delivery address for samples and post mortem m aterial GD, CMD, Arnsbergstraat 7, 7418 EZ Deventer, the Netherlands.
In order to implement our motto even more effectively internationally, the activities of GD relating to international affairs and the accounts for pharma, feed, water, diagnostics, autogenous vaccines and proficiency testing schemes (PTS) have been merged into a single department, led by yours truly since 1 August. In september Annemieke Spitse joined our team as International Service Coodinator. More about her on page 12. In this edition you can also meet our new Animal Health Director Ynte Hein Schukken (page 11). Additionally, you can read about the special achievements of GD vets Karianne Lievaart-Peterson and Rene van den Brom (page 11), Sjaak de Wit and former GD vet Ben Kouwenhoven (page 7). There is much more to tell, therefore I would like to encourage you to read this new version of GD Update. I hope you enjoy it! GERARD WELLENBERG, PhD, BSc
GD Update | October 2013 |
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