National Reference Laboratory for equine diseases, with the exception of equine pestilence (glanders, glanders, infectious anaemia of equidae, equine encephalomyelitis, all forms of equine encephalomyelitis)
Our National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for equine diseases, with the exception of African horse sickness, is based at the Institute for Veterinary Investigations in Mödling, which forms part of AGES’s Animal Health division. The testing facility of the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH is accredited in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025, with identification number 0452, by Akkreditierung Austria (Federal Ministry for Digitalisation and Business Location) for the areas specified in the accreditation decision and published at https://akkreditierung-austria.gv.at/ published areas.
These include, amongst others,
- Cooperation with the relevant EU reference laboratory (EU-RL) and, where applicable, other (international) NRLs with the same specialisation
- Participation in training courses and interlaboratory comparison tests organised by the EU-RL
- Dissemination of the information provided by the EU-RL
- Scientific and technical support for the competent authorities in implementing the multi-annual national control plans
- Active support with diagnosis in the event of an outbreak
- Establishment, standardisation, validation and verification of test systems
- Maintenance of strain collections, isolates and reference sera
- Ensuring the preservation and generation of knowledge
Institut für veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling
- vetmed.moedling@ages.at
- +43 50 555 38112
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Robert Koch-Gasse 17
2340 Mödling
Last updated: 16.07.2026
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