Division 3
United Kingdom
The national classical swine fever laboratory in each Member State is responsible for coordinating the standards and diagnostic methods in each classical swine fever diagnostic laboratory within the Member State. To this end:
- (a)
they may provide diagnostic reagents to individual laboratories;
- (b)
they are to control the quality of all diagnostic reagents used in that Member State;
- (c)
they are to arrange comparative tests periodically;
- (d)
they are to hold isolates of classical swine fever virus from cases and outbreaks confirmed in that Member State.