Goals of the Alberta Veterinary Surveillance Network (AVSN)

• Support producers, private veterinarians and a team of animal disease experts to address livestock and poultry disease issues that affect industry, food safety and public health
• Demonstrate excellence in livestock and poultry surveillance; Provincially, Nationally and Internationally
• Detect infectious and non-infectious diseases in Alberta's livestock and poultry
• Provide diagnostic pathology and disease investigation support to assist livestock and poultry disease investigations in partnership with producers and their veterinarians
• Support industry recovery following an incursion of an important disease event
• Produce and communicate information to veterinarians, producers and government agencies such as the Office of the Chief Provincial Veterinarian (OCPV) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Provide information that supports consumer confidence, market access and sales
• Support public health agencies to help them address food safety and zoonotic disease issues
• Development and support of the Veterinary Practice Surveillance (VPS): A secure web-based framework for participating veterinarians to report livestock and/or poultry disease and non-disease data (Note: Production data is not reported) via the internet (VPS Partner Access)
• Provide information about Alberta's livestock and poultry, market access, demographics, public health and food-safety