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Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna, commonly referred as “IZSLER", is an official Veterinary Organization of Italian Ministry of Health entrusted with independent management to supply the Veterinary Services. Headoffice is located in Brescia and other 16 laboratories are located in Lombardia and Emilia Romagna Regions.
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IZSLER’s facilities include laboratories for research and diagnosis of animal diseases, chemical analysis, food control, molecular biology.
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BIOBANKING OF VETERINARY RESOURCES (BVR) 
IZSLER is provided with Biobanking of Veterinary Resources (BVR), a centralized repository of the different types of Biological Resources produced in the course of its diagnostic, control, research and production activities, consisting of a central facility at the Brescia headquarters and a Backup repository of the materials, at the territorial headquarters in Mantua.
IZSLER management, as a result of their preparation, analysis and characterization work, propose which Biological Resources are to be considered particularly valuable to the institution itself and to the entire scientific community, and their suitability to be stored in the Biobank. In all cases, IZSLER managers in their facilities are responsible for the production, preservation, and evaluation of such products. Such generation of Biological Resources can be systematic (production of already known and assayed reagents), innovative (products within research projects), unbudgeted (field samples). Matrices judged to be of interest are deposited at the Biobank. The Biobank collects and preserves the different biological resources after appropriate assessments to certify their suitability.
IBVR also stores biological material from other Institutions that request it either as Open Deposit or as Safe Deposit.
The IZSLER Biobank has also been recognized by the Office International del Epizooties- OIE as an International Collaboration Center with the name "Biobank of Veterinary Resources - BVR. The tasks of the Collaboration Center are to promote good practices related to biobanking activities, facilitate the exchange of materials, and participate as a competent Institute in WOAH projects involving biobanking.
An easy access on line service to search biological material with detailed information and to get this in a short time.
The biobank will gradually increase in type and number of stored samples. These will be available inside IZSLER and also to the scientific community for the future years.
The material is produced using a monitored process of production, controlled in the quality features, and stored in a safe environment.
BVR BACKUP (BVR-B)
In early 2018, the construction of a secondary Biobank (BVR-Backup) at the Territorial Headquarters in Mantua was completed for the storage of Backup aliquots only for the purpose of safeguarding Biological Resources in the event of an unexpected disaster.
The Backup site provides a limited infrastructure comparable to the primary one with the same types of sample storage: cryogenic area, +4°C, -20°C cells and -80°C freezer (connected to the nitrogen line)
MATERIAL EXPERTS
The Biobank Manager is supported by the collaboration of Experts.
The Experts are identified from among the Institute's managers on the basis of their expertise and experience, and the assignment is entrusted to them by the Director General.
Each Expert is assigned tasks related to one or more specific Biological Resources.
The Experts have the task of supporting the managers of the different structures in the selection of the Biological Resources to be included in the Biobank, within the typology of the Biological Resource of their competence, coordinating, for this activity, the colleagues involved in the same sector.
The Experts are also in charge of defining the type of quality controls to be carried out (where applicable) and the quantity of material/product to be collected. The Experts have the task of drawing up exhaustive sheets of the Biological Resources stored, useful for full knowledge of the relative traceability.
The Experts are organized into a college that is responsible for assisting the Manager in managing the facility and submitting proposals to the Executive Board, monitoring the operation of the Biobank, and contributing to the preparation of the annual report that the Manager sends to the Executive Board.
The laboratories from which the materials originate provide for the preparation of the Biological Resource on which they perform quality controls aimed at establishing purity and intrinsic characteristics, where possible, according to the criteria defined by the Experts.
The Experts shall, prior to transfer to the Biobank, verify the quali-quantitative characteristics of the Biological Resource in order to ascertain compliance with the criteria/specifications.
LIST of MATERIAL EXSPERTS