VLA

VLA is a regional network of 16 laboratories including one in Scotland, two in Wales, a central research and diagnostic testing facility near Weybridge in Surrey and two joint surveillance centres at the Liverpool and London veterinary schools.

The Agency is one of the largest research establishments of its kind in the world and is internationally recognised as a centre of scientific excellence. It has close international links with research institutes, universities and commercial companies and acts as an International Reference Laboratory for a wide range of infectious and non-infectious diseases in farm animals.  

The main aim of the Agency is to safeguard public and animal health by providing all sectors of the animal health industry with a wide range of applied veterinary research and consultancy on diseases of farmed livestock, diagnosis of diseases of statutory and public health importance and surveillance of new and emerging diseases throughout the country.

Web site: www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/vla/

Brochure: to download the VLA Biological Reagents Catalogue Click Here (PDF file)

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