USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is making foreign disease detection and surveillance one of its priorities through this year.
Director Carrie Castille says the department is coordinating with other agencies to assist the National Animal Health Laboratory Network. “This critical partnership ensures that resources, testing, monitoring and data can be shared, and procedures can be rapidly implemented anywhere in the nation in response to a biological threat to the nation’s food animals,” Castille says.
