Increase in USDA NVSL testing fees

Tim Pasma, Jennifer Zoethout

Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.                            

AHL Newsletter 2025;29(1):4.

The United States Department of Agriculture recently announced increases in fees for testing conducted at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa. As these fees had not changed since 2012, the resulting increase this year is substantial. The prices of the following tests will be affected:

Botulism MIT

Brucella canis ME tube agglutination test

Brucella ovis antibody ELISA

Dourine CF

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease AGID

Equine encephalitis virus – Eastern IgM ELISA

Equine encephalitis virus – Eastern and Western PRNT

Glanders

Malignant catarrhal fever VN

Piroplasmosis – Babesia equi and Babesia caballi cELISA

West Nile virus IgM ELISA

West Nile virus PRNT

Prices for these tests are available with a client account on our website at: https://www.uoguelph.ca/ahl/tests