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