FERN – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

State Public Health Lab Selected as Level I Lab by USDA

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:49:13-07:00June 29th, 2015|Preparedness|

Our Arizona State Public Health Laboratory has been selected as a Level 1 Laboratory in the USDA's Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Cooperative Agreement Program. FERN currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. The FERN Program enhances the nation's ability to detect microbiological, radiological and chemical threat agents [...]

AZ Public Health Laboratory Capacity

By azdhs-admin|2010-12-21T08:11:19-07:00December 21st, 2010|Preparedness|

A few years ago it became pretty clear that we were facing some budget reductions. At the time, we had no idea that our budget reductions would be as extensive as they turned out to be. However, we did know that if we were going to maintain our laboratory capacity to protect the folks of [...]