Press Release: Commissioner Byrne to discuss responses to potential threat of bioterrorism at G7+ Meeting in Ottawa

European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, David Byrne, attended a meeting in Ottowa on 7 November 2001 of the G7 countries (USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy) plus Mexico on ways to improve health security. The G7+ meeting focuses on topics such as improving public health readiness and prevention, responding more effectively to public health security crises and strategies for increased collaboration. The G7+ meeting takes place in the margins of an OECD health conference on improving health systems performance measurement and reporting