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AGES, the Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit, works under a One Health approach that covers human, animal, plant and environmental health. It analyses, monitors, assesses, researches and communicates on food, feed, medicines, animal health, plant health, soil and seed, and radiation protection.

Its services include food, feed, cosmetics and toy testing, herd-specific vaccines for livestock operations, laboratory training courses, a database of organic plant propagation material, and a service publishing product warnings and recalls for food, children's toys, medicines, medical devices and products under the product safety law. Its customers include consumers in Austria, food and feed businesses, agricultural chambers and seed companies.

The agency reports three high-security laboratories, 74 national reference laboratories, 19 national reference centres, 151 ongoing research projects, 713,818 samples and 1,588,698 analyses. It has 1,700 staff, recruits through an online job portal and an applicant pool, and accepts summer internship applications.

Product: Laboratory analysis, risk assessment, monitoring, product recall alerts and training for food, feed, medicines, animal and plant health.