Canada’s ISA Reference Laboratory loses OIE designation
Salmon Facts are Sacred, June 20, 2013
There’s now only one OIE (World Organization for Animal Health)-designated reference lab in the world for ISA testing, and it ain’t in Canada.
As of today, the OIE has pulled its reference designation for Fred Kibenge’s lab at the Atlantic Veterinary College on Prince Edward Island, leaving Dr. Knut Falk’s lab at the National Veterinary Institute in Norway as the only OIE-designated reference lab in the world for Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA).
Today, Positive Aquaculture Awareness is the first to break this news and we are expecting a cry of “foul” will soon erupt from Alexandra Morton and her followers. You see, her fringe group already feels that there is a vast global conspiracy working against Morton and her “work.” No doubt this conspiracy will now be expanded to include the respected World Organization for Animal Health — whose credibility Morton herself had been more than happy to exploit when it may have worked in her favour. As the facts continue to pile up against Morton’s claims, the more ridiculous her conspiracy theories will become.
The OIE’s decision has been a long time coming. Here’s the background.
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