Argentina: INTA inaugurates a reference laboratory in animal health

Published 2021년 12월 3일

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The third building of the "Bernardo Jorge Carrillo" Animal Health Laboratory has been inaugurated at INTA Cerrillos, Salta, Argentina. The laboratory, a significant addition to the existing facility since 2017, will enhance research in forages, animal management, and health, with a focus on improving livestock performance and export value. Named after a key figure in Argentina's animal health program, the laboratory is set to strengthen the country's agro-bioindustrial profile and support sustainable development. Notably, it will continue the tradition of Bernardo Jorge Carrillo's bovine spongiform encephalopathy surveillance program, which has been instrumental in declaring Argentina spongiform encephalopathy-free. The laboratory is equipped with 11 working groups across three areas and has a long history of pioneering research in animal health, including the development of the bovine sadness vaccine in the 1980s.
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Agricultural expansion and productive intensification in the northwest of the country, added to the variability of ecological environments and changes in animal feeding, create the need to adjust and redesign sanitary models to prevent emerging or endemic diseases. Due to the economic impact they generate in the region, INTA inaugurates the third building of the “Bernardo Jorge Carrillo” Animal Health Laboratory, in recognition of the researcher who worked as a veterinarian at INTA and constituted a central pillar for the construction of the National Program Animal Health. During the inauguration, Susana Mirassou - INTA president - highlighted the role of the laboratory in the region: "How important it is to inaugurate this high-tech Laboratory in Animal Health to provide more and better services to production, always articulating Nation, Province and Municipality, public and private sector, science and technical organizations and academic sector ”. In this sense, the President of ...
Source: Agroexpert

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