Laboratory activities

• Execution of national monitoring and control programs (food, feed, animal diseases) adopted by the national governmental bodies 
• Laboratory testing of food, drinking water, feed (chemical, biological, GMO, organoleptic etc. tests) 
• Diagnosis of animal diseases (bacteriological, parasitological, immunological, virological, molecular etc. tests)
• Functions of the National Reference Laboratory - collaboration with EU-RLs, coordination of activities of official laboratories that analyse official samples, organisation of comparative tests between the official laboratories, dissemination of information from the EU-RLs to the competent authority and official national laboratories, assistance for the competent authority in drafting coordinated monitoring and control plans.
• Implementation and confirmation of laboratory test methods.

• Plan for investigation of official samples of food;
• Monitoring of contaminants in food of plant origin;
• Monitoring plan for certain substances and residues in live animals and food of animal origin;
• Program for the control of imported foodstuffs;
• Monitoring program of feed;
• Program for the control of animal infectious diseases.

• Bacteriological, parasitological and mycological investigation of clinical and pathological material of various animals, birds, fishes and bees.
• Serotyping of Salmonella and verotoxigenic E.coli (VTEC).
• Determination of resistance of bacteria to antimicrobial substances.
• Bacteriological and mycological investigation of feeds and their raw material.
• Bacteriological and mycological investigation of environmental samples.
• Investigation of sludge, biohumus and bedding.
• Investigation of the quality of animal sperm.

• Virological investigations of domestic and wild animals and fish.
• Testing of efficacy of vaccination of wild animals against rabies.
• Pet travel scheme tests.
• Cell culturing, VI, VN, FAVN, IF, IFA techniques.
• BSL-3 laboratory facilities for investigations of contagious animal diseases.

• Immunological investigations of infectious diseases of domestic and wild animals in blood serum and milk.
• More than 60 various infectious animal diseases can be diagnosed by classical immunological methods.
• Investigations of diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and protozoa.
• Laboratory tests for animals intended to import, export, for breeding and exhibitions.

• Carries out dissections.
• Pathological, anatomical and histological analysis of pathological material.
• Collection and preparation of pathological material for virological, bacteriological and molecular biology tests investigations.
• Investigations of tissue samples for detection of TSEs by histological, immunochemical and rapid test methods.
• Identification of animal proteins in feed by microscopy.
• Assessment of efficacy of oral vaccination of wild animals against rabies.

• Molecular qualitative and quantitative analyses of foodstuffs, feedstuffs, plants and their seeds are being carried out in order to identify their genetic modification;
• Molecular microbiological, virological analyses are being carried out in order to determine rabies, classical swine fever, avian influenza, bovine viral diarrhoea and other diseases;
• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), AT-PCR, real time PCR, genotyping and sequencing analyses.

• Chemical and physical analyses of foodstuffs, their raw materials, drinking and mineral water, beverages, feedstuffs and other;
• Evaluation composition of products – proteins, fats, hydrocarbons, vitamins, humidity, ash content and other;
• Contaminants – mycotoxins, pesticide residues, polychlorbiphenils, benzo(a)pirene, residues of veterinary medicinal products and feedstuff additives, toxic elements.

• Microbiological, mycological, parasitological qualitative and quantitative analyses of foodstuffs, water, beverages;
• Molecular qualitative investigations of microorganisms;
• Detection of residues of antibacterial substances in raw milk and fresh meat;
• Agar media, broth and reagents are produced for microbiological investigations

• Sensoric analyses of foodstuffs and drinking water.
• Sensory group of 11 assessors selected from the NFVRAI staff.
• Qualifications of assessors each year tested with the inter-laboratory comparison tests.
• Sensory analysis - differences tests, descriptive methods, the scoring.

NFVRAI Accreditation certificate

Rabies antibody test for Pet animals

National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute (NFVRAI) 

J. Kairiūkščio g. 10, LT-08411, Vilnius

Phone +370 52 78 0470

E-mail: [email protected]

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