Russia-New meat testing facilities.

RUSSIA- NEW MEAT LABORATORY.

Agribusiness Holdings Miratorg has opened a production veterinary laboratory, which specializes in biomolecular research of hog catching diseases. The aim of the laboaratory creation is advance in biosecurity at hog breeding operations of the holding. The state-of-the-art laboratory affords to carry out research of animal health on a regular basis and diagnosticate accurately and in time.

The laboratory is projected in accordance with all sanitary rules and standards and it has two sections: immunologic research department and molecular diagnostics department, which do research of viral agent presence in biomaterial at genetic level.

The centre is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment affording conduction of quality research of different diseases: thermocycler "Tertsik" of Russian origin (NPО "DNA-Technology"), an amplifier on real-time mode Rotor Gene 6000 (Corbett Research, Australia). There is a spectophotometer BioTek (USA) in the immunologic research department.


Currently, the veterinary laboratory works only with material collected from Miratorg’s hog complexes, however, it is planning to carry out research work for other hog breeding enterprises in future.