Mission: The State Veterinary Laboratories’ mission is the State and its citizens’ assurance for reliable and qualitative examinations of samples derived from animals or food of animal origin for diseases with impact on the agricultural economy, the Public Health, and the Animal Health and Welfare, in certain time bounds.
Objective: The implementation of particular Programmes in cooperation with the rest of the Sections and Divisions of the Veterinary Services. These Programmes are constantly reviewed to cover new rising subjects according to the requirements of the environment and are designed to comply with the current European Union strategies and the economical and agricultural needs of Cyprus.
Description: A machine with a rapidly rotating container that applies centrifugal force to its contents, typically to separate fluids of different densities.
Units: 10
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
Helps the growth of the cell cultures and the antibodies adsorbed to the ELISA plate to bind with the target antigen in the sample fluid in serological methods.
Description: Αn apparatus for measuring the intensity of light in a part of the spectrum, especially as transmitted or emitted by particular substances.
Units: 3
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
Description: A system that produces pure ASTMII quality water, according to ISO3696, which is used for cleaning laboratory glassware, feeding devices such as liquid sterilization furnaces and feeding an ASTMI type ultrapure water production system.
Units: 1
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
The produced water is used for cleaning laboratory glassware, feeding devices such as liquid sterilization furnaces and in serological and molecular techniques.
Uses steam under pressure to kill harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores on items that are placed inside the pressure container to be sterilized.
Description: An enclosed, ventilated with HEPA filters laboratory workspace for the safe working with materials contaminated with pathogens requiring a defined biosafety level.
Units: 5
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
For performing cell cultures and virological isolations and providing DNA and RNA contaminant-free environment through HEPA filters and UV decontamination system for the molecular techniques.
Description: Thermo Shandon Sequenza Immunostaining Center
Independent timers for each of the five stations help organize procedures and reduce user error. Uses the Coverplate™ system which ensures consistency and excellent staining quality Allows the user to perform large immunostaining runs (up to 50 slides/run) giving excellent reproduction consistency Frees considerable technician time for other tasks Substantial reagent savings in both immunoreagents and buffer rinse compared to other hand-staining methods Protects tissue specimens from drying artifact
Units: 2
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
Description: magnetic stirrer is a laboratory device that employs a rotating magnetic field to cause a stir bar (or flea) immersed in a liquid to spin very quickly, thus stirring it.
Units: 1
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
Description: The Paraffin Section Flotation Bath is designed to assist with the handling of paraffin wax samples in histology and pathology laboratories. It is essentially a hot distilled water floating bath that allows for the meticulous manipulation and location of sections onto glass slides.
Units: 1
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
Description: The Hotplate is designed to efficiently dry paraffin tissue sections using a temperature control that provides accurate control of the drying temperature.
Units: 3
Hosting Laboratory / Department: Laboratory of Animal Health
