Our National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for African horse sickness is located at the Institute for Veterinary Investigations Mödling in the Business Unit Animal Health of AGES. The testing laboratory of the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH is accredited according to ISO/IEC 17025 with the identification number 0452 by Accreditation Austria (Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Economic Location) for the areas listed in the notification and published at https://akkreditierung-austria.gv.at/.

These include

• Cooperation with the corresponding EU reference laboratory (EU-RL) and, if applicable, other (international) NRLs of the same orientation.
• Participation in training courses and interlaboratory tests provided by the EU-RL
• Distribution of information provided by the EU-RL
• Scientific and technical support to the competent authorities in the implementation of the Multiannual National Control Plans
• Active support in diagnostics in case of disease outbreak
• Establishment, standardization, validation/verification of test systems
• Keeping strain collections, isolates and reference sera available
• Ensuring knowledge retention and generation

African horse sickness

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