Goals of the Alberta Veterinary Surveillance Network (AVSN)

• Detect and respond to animal health issues that may affect public health, food safety, or market access
• Support Alberta to become global leader in animal health surveillance.
• Build and test an innovative model that may be used by other jurisdictions.
• Support Canada’s excellence in animal health surveillance.
• Provide information to agencies such as the Office of the Chief Provincial Veterinarian (OCPV) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to validate Alberta’s animal health and to demonstrate Alberta’s veterinary infrastructure to the international agricultural trade community.
• Provide information to marketing and commodity agencies to address market access issues.
• Support veterinary practitioners and other authorized officials by providing web-based access to current information on the health status of Alberta’s livestock.
• Monitor disease trends in livestock and poultry.
• Provide diagnostic pathology and disease investigation support to veterinary practitioners to respond to animal health issues that may affect market access, food safety and public health.