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WADDL explains role in avian influenza response and trade‑enabling testing
Summary
The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL) told senators that accredited, rapid testing has been central to managing avian influenza, enabling quarantine decisions and keeping commodity movement flowing; lab performs ~230,000 tests/year and has a roughly $10.7 million operating budget.
Dr. Kevin Snegovic, executive director of the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Washington State University, briefed the committee on the laboratory’s diagnostic, food‑safety and surveillance roles.
Snegovic said WADDL runs roughly 230,000 tests a year (peaking at 310,000 in 2021 during the pandemic period) and operates a biosafety level‑3 facility. He described the lab’s role in proving negative tests to allow commodity movement in quarantine zones and said rapid state‑level testing…
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