We bring together governments, CSIRO, private and university animal health laboratories to establish and maintain standards for all veterinary laboratories in Australia.
Best practice animal health laboratory services are essential to ensuring the quality of pest and disease detection and management. This helps:
- enable the early detection of emergency and emerging animal diseases
- support the management of endemic pests and diseases
- sustain and improve the quality of livestock and products
- assure market access for our exporters of farm and fisheries products.
In this section
- Diagnostic procedures
- Laboratory tests
- Point-of-care tests
- Reference laboratories
- National Animal Health Diagnostics Business Plan
- Laboratory policies and guidelines
- Stakeholders
Subcommittee on Animal Health Laboratory Standards
The Subcommittee on Animal Health Laboratory Standards (SCAHLS) provides technical advice to the Animal Health Committee (AHC) on terrestrial animal health laboratory standards, policies and other issues.
SCAHLS coordinates essential laboratory functions for AHC. We provide secretariat support to SCAHLS.
SCAHLS also supports AHC to implement the National Animal Health Diagnostics Business Plan 2021-2026.