• Recommends changes to address trade issues 

 effectively and to align USDA standards and policies 

 with international standards. 



• Represents the Deputy Administrator and the 

 Department of Agriculture at meetings with 

 international officials as well as with livestock and 

 poultry industry representatives. 



Contact Point for the Sanitary 

 International Standards Team 



National Center for Import and Export 



Sanitary International Standards Team 



USDA-APHIS-VS 



4700 River Rd., Unit 33 



Riverdale,MD 20737-1231 



Tel: (301)734-3577 



Fax: (301)734-8818 



e-mail: usa.oie@aphis.usda.gov 



CEAH: An OIE Collaborating Center 



Contact Point for CEAH 



As an OIE collaborating center, CEAH share their risk 

 analysis and disease surveillance expertise with member 

 countries. It provides them with technical assistance and 

 expert advice on disease surveillance and control and 

 risk analysis. 



As a collaborating center, CEAH fulfill ihe following 

 objectives: 



• Reviews, evaluates, and adapts methodologies and 

 approaches to enhance animal disease surveillance 

 systems and the risk analysis process. 



• Promotes a harmonized approach to disease 

 surveillance and risk analysis. Provides technical 

 assistance to OIE member countries as needed. 



• Improves the quality of animal disease surveillance 

 and risk analysis by establishing a critical mass of 

 trained indix'iduals in OIE member countries. 



• Networks with other OIE collaborating centers to 

 coordinate activities. 



Centers for Epidemiologx and Animal Health 



USDA-APHIS-VS 



2150 Centre Ave., Bldg.B 



Fort Collins, CO 80326 



Tel: (970)494-7214 



Fax: (970)472-2668 



Center for the Diagnosis of Animal 

 Diseases and Vaccine Evaluation for the 

 Americas: An OIE Collaborating Center 



The Center for the Diagnosis of Annual Diseases and 

 Vaccine Evaluation for the Americas consists of three 

 components: NVSL, the Center tor \ctcrinar\- Biologies 

 (CVB),and the Institute tor International (^cn^pcration 

 in Animal Biologies (IIC^AB). 



NVSI are full-ser\ ice laboratories tiiat ha\e expertise 

 in all ot the diagnostic tests for significant annual 

 diseases found in the \incricas. These laboratories 

 are committed to sharing And harmoni/mg these 

 procedures with other countries in the Americas. The 

 N\'SL support the Oil by 



• Pro\iding diagnostic assistance sueh as agent isolation 

 and characterization; 



• Supplying reference reagents to other laboratories, 

 which can be used to standardize testing or tor 

 routine diagnosis; 



• F\ ablating diagnostic reagents used by other 

 countries and exchanging sera to standardize and 

 harmonize testing; 



• Providing training in the diagnostic tests that 

 they perform 



• Consulting on a wide range of techniques; and 



• Conducting developmental projects to improve 

 diagnostic techniques for diseases of significance in 

 the Americas. 



C\'B is the sole confirmator\' and inxestit^atorx' testing 

 laborator\' in\dl\ed in reyulation ot commercial 



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