Team

The IRTA center, located at Sant Carles de la Ràpita, has a privileged location near seafood fishing areas. IRTA AMIC Programme is responsible for carrying out the «Monitoring Water quality program in the seafood fishing areas of Catalonia «since 1999 and, consequently, is in close contact with the production and administration sector. The programme has long experience with microalgae including those harmful species producing toxins. It is fully equipped for microalgae isolation and culture, molecular and morphological identifications, and toxin analysis. IRTA also has aquaculture research facilities, both inside and outside.

IRTA has also begun to carry out marine phytoplankton analyzes of the Valencian Coast.

This is the public and official collection of Spanish microalgae and cyanobacteria and is accredited as an International Authority for the Deposit of Microorganisms by the World Organization of Industrial Property (WIPO).

The purpose for which the Institute is created is “to serve as a useful tool for society and to become a benchmark in matters of animal health and food safety”, not only in the Canary Islands, but also in the rest of our country and in the world. Our strategic, geographical and cultural situation, and the events that we are experiencing in terms of the spread of diseases, the appearance of new health problems in the world, wide areas of poverty and massive migratory flows from those same areas, allow us to open, from Europe, broad lines of collaboration with countries in Africa and Central and South America, allowing the cultural and health development of those same areas.