New Jersey Capacity Building Project 2019

Project SummaryNew Jersey is more susceptible to food borne diseases due to it dense population and itscrucial location in terms of national and international commercial activity. The New JerseyDepartment of Agriculture (NJDA) Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory (AHDL) serves a widevariety of pet and livestock population. The AHDL would like to improve its capacity as a Vet-LIRN laboratory by obtaining a slide staining equipment to increase the AHDL?s pathologyinvestigation capacity. In participating in the Vet-LIRN programs, the AHDL will install andoperate the equipment in its veterinary pathology section. The laboratory will use its improvedcapacity as needed by the Vet-LIRN/FDA in the event of a large-scale microbiological orchemical terrorism or natural pathogenic organism outbreak event involving animal food or drugproducts. The AHDL will share resources such as slides, samples, isolates and methods withthe FDA Vet-LIRN program office.