This project will help the south dakota animal disease research and diagnostics laboratory (adrdl) continue to be a top-level partner with national animal health laboratory network (nahln) in…

This $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.304 - Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative) supports the South Dakota Animal Disease Research and Diagnostics Laboratory (ADRDL) to maintain its role as a top-level partner with the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN).

Through this funding, ADRDL will leverage its diagnostic capabilities, quality systems, IT infrastructure, and administrative resources to ensure it is prepared to support NAHLN's mission of monitoring, detecting, and responding to potential animal disease outbreaks such as avian influenza, swine flu, or foot-and-mouth disease. Key activities include validating test methods, enabling real-time data communication, conducting emergency preparedness exercises, and carrying out disease monitoring tasks as required by NAHLN. This collaboration is intended to strengthen the nation's ability to address emerging or existing threats to animal health, agriculture, and food supply in a timely manner.

This project will help the south dakota animal disease research and diagnostics laboratory (adrdl) continue to be a top-level partner with national animal health laboratory network (nahln) in providing a solid defense to the american agriculture system. In this capacity, adrdl will ensure that IT is prepared to support the nahln mission to monitor, detect, and respond in a timely manner to potential emergencies related to animal disease outbreaks (e.g., bird flu or swine flu or foot and mouth disease, etc.). Adrdl will achieve this goal and objective by using and sharing its current diagnostic capabilities, quality system, IT system, financial system, and administrative resources for nahln activities related to ensuring employee competencies, test method validation, real time data communication with stakeholders, emergency preparedness exercises, disease monitoring activities, and other nahln support activities as required. We believe that adrdl's collaboration with nahln will help our nation to be ever prepared to deal with emerging or existing threats to animal health, agriculture, and food supply in a timely manner.