Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Receives Accreditation

The Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at Utah State University received accreditation from the American Association of Veterinarians Laboratory Diagnosticians in March 2010. The state of Utah now has a cutting-edge, accredited, veterinary diagnostic laboratory capable of testing for both endemic and foreign animal diseases. Testing performed is accepted nationally and internationally, permitting expanded movement of livestock from the Intermountain West. Moreover, an accredited UVDL fulfills more exactly its role in protecting the public from diseases that can be transferred from animals to humans.
 

 

“Accreditation is critical,” said Thomas Baldwin, director of the Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. “It assures laboratory users that an in-depth quality system is in place to ensure that all tests and procedures performed are state-of-the-art, timely, accurate, repeatable and validated.”
  

 

Users of the laboratory include veterinarians, animal owners and state and federal agriculture and wildlife disease regulatory personnel. UVDL offers laboratory-based assays in veterinary bacteriology, molecular diagnostics, parasitology, pathology, serology and toxicology. In addition, the UVDL houses expertise otherwise unavailable to Utah citizens: faculty members are board certified in their areas of expertise, including pathology, toxicology and epidemiology. In the United States there are 33 accredited veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Before accreditation of the UVDL, closest accredited laboratories were in Colorado, Arizona, Washington and California.

 

 

For more information about the UVDL, visit its Web site.

 

 

Contact: Thomas Baldwin, 435-797-7406